04-08-2017, 07:37 AM
Most of us have our values, and some of us have the idea that the ideal purpose of government is to facilitate the enrichment of extant elites who (those elites believe) can best handle resources. An economy works best, so goes the argument, when it can sweat workers to the fullest and ensure that every transaction that people other than themselves do turns a maximal profit.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.