Totalitarianism - do you know what it means?

[Deborah K]

Does this concern anyone else besides me????
Totalitarianism (or totalitarian rule) is a concept used to describe political systems where a state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private life. Totalitarian regimes or movements maintain themselves in political power by means of an official all-embracing ideology and propaganda disseminated through the state-controlled mass media, a single party that controls the state, personality cults, central state-controlled economy, regulation and restriction of free discussion and criticism, the use of mass surveillance, and widespread use of terror tactics.

It seems like we're almost there!

 

[cheapseats]

It would have to be at least considered by an honorable Court that screaming 'FIRE!' in this crowded theater fell well under the protective umbrella of free speech.

 

[Indy Vidual]

Does this concern anyone else besides me????
Totalitarianism (or totalitarian rule) is a concept used to describe political systems where a state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private life. Totalitarian regimes or movements maintain themselves in political power by means of an official all-embracing ideology and propaganda disseminated through the state-controlled mass media, a single party that controls the state, personality cults, central state-controlled economy, regulation and restriction of free discussion and criticism, the use of mass surveillance, and widespread use of terror tactics.

It seems like we're almost there!

Just one more *emergency* and we can seal the deal.

 

[Truth Warrior]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Totalitarianism

 

[silverhawks]

What might really terrify you then is this question.

Do you know what "politics" means, without looking up the definition?

If you do, great. =)

Ask around, see how many people actually know the answer. They'll know a vague or approximate definition, but not the actual one.

For a word that describes the process influencing every life on Earth, a word that invariably crops up on multiple occasions in every one of our lives, you'll find that not many people at all know the answer, or even care.

 

[cheapseats]

Politics is civil war carried on by other means.

--Alisdair C. MacIntyre


Politics, very often, is simply economics pursued by other means.

--Edward J. Nell


The drama of politics...[is] only the people running around trying to change one gang of bandits for another gang of bandits.

--Carl Sandburg


In politics, an absurdity is not an obstacle.

--Napoleon


The worst sin in politics is being boring.

--Richard Nixon


Serial seduction, that's what politics is.

--Richard Reeves


The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of man.

--Reinhold Niebuhr


Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

--Paul Valery


The art of politics is ostentatious giving and surreptitious taking.

--Roger J. Vaughan


Money is the mother's milk of politics.

--Jesse Unruh


Politics makes strange bedfellows.

--Charles Dudley Warner


I have abstrained from having any sentimunts or principles. My pollertics, like my religion, bein of a exceedin accomodatin character.

--Artemus Ward


What we need...is to moralize politics, not politicize morals.

--Karl R. Popper


Those who desire to treat politics and morals apart from one another will never understand either.

--Rousseau

 

[Truth Warrior]

What might really terrify you then is this question.

Do you know what "politics" means, without looking up the definition?

If you do, great. =)

Ask around, see how many people actually know the answer. They'll know a vague or approximate definition, but not the actual one.

For a word that describes the process influencing every life on Earth, a word that invariably crops up on multiple occasions in every one of our lives, you'll find that not many people at all know the answer, or even care.

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." -- Groucho Marx

 

[Conza88]

Totalitarianism is collectivism.


'Poli' - meaning: many...

'Tics' - meaning: blood sucking creatures.

 

[Truth Warrior]

Totalitarianism is collectivism.


'Poli' - meaning: many...

'Tics' - meaning: blood sucking creatures.

'Poli' - meaning: many...

'Tics' - meaning: blood sucking parasites.

 

[raiha]

Politics:A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. Ambrose Bierce

 

[mediahasyou]

Totalitarianism is total government control. The government owns your life. You are a dead man. Good luck

 

[nodope0695]

One look at the picture on my signature will tell you what totalitarianism looks like...all welcome the police state.

 

[bill50]

I'll agree if you take away the almost in that sentence.

 

[cheapseats]

Totalitarianism is total government control. The government owns your life. You are a dead man. Good luck

Worse, the government owns your life while you are still living it.

 

[josephadel_3]

Politics is power.

Totalitarianism is the sole concentration of power in the hands of the State.

 

[Ceos]

Sigh.. Politics came from the word Poleis. It was the place of meeting in a Greek City/town where they would discuss matters. Simular to a town hall, but more broad. Any adult male citizen could participate in the Poleis.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

Hmm,

I wonder how many times I've quoted this Government regime as a TOTALITARIAN OLIGARCHY on this forum?

100's... just search on the key word.

Yeah, anything else from this well syncronized regime is: "Spin & Propaganda".

My new book... 'Spin & Propaganda' - revealing the layers of the TOTALITARIAN government onion in union with the 4th branch of government (MSM) in "White Washing" all their covert actions to Americans and the World.

coming to a book store near you!