#totalitarianism — Public Fediverse posts

In Hitler and Stalin Today lecture course, Timothy Snyder examines the #Nazi and #Soviet responses to the new globalized world they shared. The course begins with the #colonial background that made #totalitarianism possible, and which remains an essential element of our politics now. https://buff.ly/3Pd35WT

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 13 “Ideology and Terror” (1951)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41683/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #conviction #convincing #experience #fact #falsehood #fiction #follower #reality #subject #totalitarianism #truth #unreality #delusion

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 13 “Ideology and Terror” (1951)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41683/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #conviction #convincing #experience #fact #falsehood #fiction #follower #reality #subject #totalitarianism #truth #unreality #delusion

Sharia law explained in Texas

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The speaker is reportedly a migrant from Iran at a town meeting on a proposed Islamic Center in McKinney, TX. The West is collapsing at warp speed due to its ignorance of other cultures and religions. All enemy infiltrators will lie to you. ABN

Sharia law explained in Texas

link

The speaker is reportedly a migrant from Iran at a town meeting on a proposed Islamic Center in McKinney, TX. The West is collapsing at warp speed due to its ignorance of other cultures and religions. All enemy infiltrators will lie to you. ABN

#religion #oligarchy #fascism #americanpolitics #RussianPolitics #totalitarianism

#religion #oligarchy #fascism #americanpolitics #RussianPolitics #totalitarianism

How the Epstein Network is Privatizing Govt & Building the Surveillance State(w/Whitney Webb) |TCHR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qbs91ivQmg

How the Epstein Network is Privatizing Govt & Building the Surveillance State(w/Whitney Webb) |TCHR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qbs91ivQmg

When #civilcourage is systematically suppressed, it's already a harbinger of #totalitarianism.

When social engagement, including #empathy, is overwhelmed and causes unnatural #fear and even #hatred, #humanity is sidelined.

When #civilcourage is systematically suppressed, it's already a harbinger of #totalitarianism.

When social engagement, including #empathy, is overwhelmed and causes unnatural #fear and even #hatred, #humanity is sidelined.

The ideal subjects of totalitarian rule are "people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (ie the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (ie the standards of thought) no longer exist."
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of #Totalitarianism

Quoted by Pope Leo in his AI Encyclical (Magnifica Humanitas).

The ideal subjects of totalitarian rule are "people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (ie the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (ie the standards of thought) no longer exist."
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of #Totalitarianism

Quoted by Pope Leo in his AI Encyclical (Magnifica Humanitas).

Hitler and Stalin Today (full lecture and readings)

Source:
https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/phl/hitler-and-stalin-today

All Lectures and Readings:
https://slrpnk.net/post/41032826

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## Institution:
University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
## Lecturer
Timothy Snyder
## University Course Code
MUN180H1-S
## Syllabus
https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/phl/hitler-and-stalin-today
## Subject:
#authoritarianism #colonization #colonialism #communism #democracy #fascism #genocide #history #holocaust #politics #soviet #worldhistory
#20thcentury #democracyindanger #historymatters #hitler #hitlerandstalintoday #massatrocities #nazi #nazigermany #neveragain #riseofauthoritarianism #sovietunion #stalin #timothysnyder #totalitarianism #ukraine
## Year:
2024
## Description:
In **Hitler and Stalin Today (MUN180H1-S)**, Timothy Snyder examines the Nazi and Soviet responses to the new globalized world they shared. The course begins with the colonial background that made totalitarianism possible, and which remains an essential element of our politics now. Their ideologies are described as worldviews and as practical politics, with an emphasis on the reasons for their appeal. Attention to their policies of mass killing, essential events of twentieth-century history, instructs us about how "it" can happen here. The study of dissident thought helps us to see connections between historical predicaments and our own, and instructs us about possible reactions as individuals and as citizens. The course asks what we have learned from the twentieth century and what lessons we should carry forward.

Hitler and Stalin Today (full lecture and readings)

Source:
https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/phl/hitler-and-stalin-today

All Lectures and Readings:
https://slrpnk.net/post/41032826

---

## Institution:
University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
## Lecturer
Timothy Snyder
## University Course Code
MUN180H1-S
## Syllabus
https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/phl/hitler-and-stalin-today
## Subject:
#authoritarianism #colonization #colonialism #communism #democracy #fascism #genocide #history #holocaust #politics #soviet #worldhistory
#20thcentury #democracyindanger #historymatters #hitler #hitlerandstalintoday #massatrocities #nazi #nazigermany #neveragain #riseofauthoritarianism #sovietunion #stalin #timothysnyder #totalitarianism #ukraine
## Year:
2024
## Description:
In **Hitler and Stalin Today (MUN180H1-S)**, Timothy Snyder examines the Nazi and Soviet responses to the new globalized world they shared. The course begins with the colonial background that made totalitarianism possible, and which remains an essential element of our politics now. Their ideologies are described as worldviews and as practical politics, with an emphasis on the reasons for their appeal. Attention to their policies of mass killing, essential events of twentieth-century history, instructs us about how "it" can happen here. The study of dissident thought helps us to see connections between historical predicaments and our own, and instructs us about possible reactions as individuals and as citizens. The course asks what we have learned from the twentieth century and what lessons we should carry forward.

“ #Totalitarianism demands, in fact, the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of #objective #truth.” - #GeorgeOrwell

Mood...

"Goodbye, my dictator, goodbye
'Cause everybody knows it's time
You've had more than your share of pie
Goodbye, my tormentor, goodbye
Goodbye, my dictator, goodbye
'Cause everybody's sick and tired
We'll all be dancing when you die
Goodbye, my dictator, goodbye
Goodbye, my dictator, goodbye
Goodbye, my dictator, goodbye"

https://youtu.be/yQOR4rIBq2M

#Trump #Fascism #Totalitarianism #Music #Resistance

Mood...

"Goodbye, my dictator, goodbye
'Cause everybody knows it's time
You've had more than your share of pie
Goodbye, my tormentor, goodbye
Goodbye, my dictator, goodbye
'Cause everybody's sick and tired
We'll all be dancing when you die
Goodbye, my dictator, goodbye
Goodbye, my dictator, goodbye
Goodbye, my dictator, goodbye"

https://youtu.be/yQOR4rIBq2M

#Trump #Fascism #Totalitarianism #Music #Resistance

Owens on Timpanogos Hospital ER allegedly emptied of patients TWO HOURS before Charlie Kirk was murdered

This is an interesting clip on its own but it is also worth viewing because it shows how this investigation has been conducted — through crowd-sourced tips. Crowd-sourcing is one way we the plebs can regain some control of our nations and lives. With the power of crowd-sourcing, corrupt law enforcement will find it much more difficult to gaslight the public or railroad innocent patsies. ABN

Owens on Timpanogos Hospital ER allegedly emptied of patients TWO HOURS before Charlie Kirk was murdered

This is an interesting clip on its own but it is also worth viewing because it shows how this investigation has been conducted — through crowd-sourced tips. Crowd-sourcing is one way we the plebs can regain some control of our nations and lives. With the power of crowd-sourcing, corrupt law enforcement will find it much more difficult to gaslight the public or railroad innocent patsies. ABN

@emersunn @tartley
I, for one, stand corrected, Paul.
Thank YOU for taking the time to elaborate.
I'm currently watching Mr Tom Hanks's series on the Second World War and I recently watched a documentary, Mr Nobody vs Putin, that both lay out how totalitarian regimes brainwash and manipulate their people.
If there is a difference between what was done in totalitarian regimes elsewhere and what is (and has been) happening in the US, the difference is only in the minor details, not in the broad substance.
#Authoritarianism #Totalitarianism #Trumpism

@emersunn @tartley
I, for one, stand corrected, Paul.
Thank YOU for taking the time to elaborate.
I'm currently watching Mr Tom Hanks's series on the Second World War and I recently watched a documentary, Mr Nobody vs Putin, that both lay out how totalitarian regimes brainwash and manipulate their people.
If there is a difference between what was done in totalitarian regimes elsewhere and what is (and has been) happening in the US, the difference is only in the minor details, not in the broad substance.
#Authoritarianism #Totalitarianism #Trumpism

They tell you Flock cameras are there to fight crime — theleahfiles

So I pulled the actual police logs from my new favorite website (haveibeenflocked . com). 233 million searches that they have been able to get via FOIA requests and here’s what “fighting crime” actually looks like:

84% had no case number at all
The most common reason a cop typed in the box? Blank, nothing
Only about 9% were even tagged as a real crime.
“Test” and “training” show up as reasons, run on real people’s cars
The FBI and Homeland Security were wired into local camera networks your town never signed off on.

So what is Flock?

FLOCK: 100,000+ plate cameras bolted to poles across America. They read your plate everywhere you drive and never forget.

NOVA: Flock’s AI that turns your plate into you. Your name, address, family, everyone you know, in seconds, no warrant.

SIGNALTRACE: a competitor’s tool that tracks the Bluetooth off your phone, your AirPods, your watch. Doesn’t even need your plate.

Then I followed the money and the lead investor behind Flock also funds an Israeli company that can hack cameras and change the footage. Another lead investor backs a 911 app that flips on your phone’s camera and mic. Trace it all the way back and you hit a former Israeli prime minister and Jeffrey Epstein’s money.

Full article with photos and receipts is on my Substack now (link in bio). Enjoy!

link

They tell you Flock cameras are there to fight crime — theleahfiles

So I pulled the actual police logs from my new favorite website (haveibeenflocked . com). 233 million searches that they have been able to get via FOIA requests and here’s what “fighting crime” actually looks like:

84% had no case number at all
The most common reason a cop typed in the box? Blank, nothing
Only about 9% were even tagged as a real crime.
“Test” and “training” show up as reasons, run on real people’s cars
The FBI and Homeland Security were wired into local camera networks your town never signed off on.

So what is Flock?

FLOCK: 100,000+ plate cameras bolted to poles across America. They read your plate everywhere you drive and never forget.

NOVA: Flock’s AI that turns your plate into you. Your name, address, family, everyone you know, in seconds, no warrant.

SIGNALTRACE: a competitor’s tool that tracks the Bluetooth off your phone, your AirPods, your watch. Doesn’t even need your plate.

Then I followed the money and the lead investor behind Flock also funds an Israeli company that can hack cameras and change the footage. Another lead investor backs a 911 app that flips on your phone’s camera and mic. Trace it all the way back and you hit a former Israeli prime minister and Jeffrey Epstein’s money.

Full article with photos and receipts is on my Substack now (link in bio). Enjoy!

link

I didn't realise how badly India is slipping into totaliarism

Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat over security concerns: Jack Dorsey - The Hindu

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/government-orders-github-to-remove-bluetooth-based-chat-app-bitchat-over-security-concerns-jack-dorsey/article71262049.ece
#india #totalitarianism #politics

New Lecture Series for the Public: "Hitler and Stalin Today" [Timothy Snyder]

Source:
https://snyder.substack.com/p/new-lecture-series-for-the-public

- **Institution:** University of Toronto
- **Lecturer:** [Timothy Snyder](https://substack.com/@snyder)
- **University Course Code:** [MUN180H1](https://artsci.calendar.utoronto.ca/course/mun180h1)
- **Subject:** #authoritarianism #colonization #communism #democracy #fascism #genocide #history #holocaust #politics #soviet #worldhistory
- **Year:** 2026
- **Description:**
> The first lecture in a ten-lecture series on Hitler and Stalin today.
>
> The first lecture (video above) is titled “What is history?” We speak often about history, but we are careless with the past. When we choose not to know what has happened before, we are also choosing not to influence what will happen after. If we don’t care about history, we find ourselves in an eternal present, denied any sort of imagination about the future, and nurtured on lies about a past in which we were innocent. History does not mean these misleading tales; it means a search for knowledge, using a certain set of tools; it means a process that enriches and humanizes, one that allows us to name things by their proper names.
>
> There are two readings to go along with this lecture:
>
> - [Tadeusz Borowski, Here in Our Auschwitz](https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/nde/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01UTORONTO_INST%3AUTORONTO_NDE&search_scope=UTL_AND_CI&docid=alma991107113412006196)
> - [The War on History is a War on Democracy](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/magazine/memory-laws.html)

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#20thcentury #democracyindanger #freecourse #historymatters #hitler #hitlerandstalintoday #massatrocities #nazi #nazigermany #neveragain #riseofauthoritarianism #sovietunion #stalin #timothysnyder #totalitarianism #universityoftoronto #uoft #freecourse #opencourselectures

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If it is inaccessible, here are other ways to read:
- [Tadeusz Borowski, Here in Our Auschwitz](https://annas-archive.gl/md5/34bf7861a9ee62b6a6bb2b82a6699ef7)
- [The War on History is a War on Democracy](http://web.archive.org/web/20260205233604if_/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/magazine/memory-laws.html)
- [Listen](https://static.nytimes.com/podcasts/2021/06/29/magazine/29audm-forced-forgetting-snyder/210629-forced-forgetting-snyder-nytmag-audm.mp3)

New Lecture Series for the Public: "Hitler and Stalin Today" [Timothy Snyder]

Source:
https://snyder.substack.com/p/new-lecture-series-for-the-public

- **Institution:** University of Toronto
- **Lecturer:** [Timothy Snyder](https://substack.com/@snyder)
- **University Course Code:** [MUN180H1](https://artsci.calendar.utoronto.ca/course/mun180h1)
- **Subject:** #authoritarianism #colonization #communism #democracy #fascism #genocide #history #holocaust #politics #soviet #worldhistory
- **Year:** 2026
- **Description:**
> The first lecture in a ten-lecture series on Hitler and Stalin today.
>
> The first lecture (video above) is titled “What is history?” We speak often about history, but we are careless with the past. When we choose not to know what has happened before, we are also choosing not to influence what will happen after. If we don’t care about history, we find ourselves in an eternal present, denied any sort of imagination about the future, and nurtured on lies about a past in which we were innocent. History does not mean these misleading tales; it means a search for knowledge, using a certain set of tools; it means a process that enriches and humanizes, one that allows us to name things by their proper names.
>
> There are two readings to go along with this lecture:
>
> - [Tadeusz Borowski, Here in Our Auschwitz](https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/nde/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01UTORONTO_INST%3AUTORONTO_NDE&search_scope=UTL_AND_CI&docid=alma991107113412006196)
> - [The War on History is a War on Democracy](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/magazine/memory-laws.html)

---

#20thcentury #democracyindanger #freecourse #historymatters #hitler #hitlerandstalintoday #massatrocities #nazi #nazigermany #neveragain #riseofauthoritarianism #sovietunion #stalin #timothysnyder #totalitarianism #universityoftoronto #uoft #freecourse #opencourselectures

---

If it is inaccessible, here are other ways to read:
- [Tadeusz Borowski, Here in Our Auschwitz](https://annas-archive.gl/md5/34bf7861a9ee62b6a6bb2b82a6699ef7)
- [The War on History is a War on Democracy](http://web.archive.org/web/20260205233604if_/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/magazine/memory-laws.html)
- [Listen](https://static.nytimes.com/podcasts/2021/06/29/magazine/29audm-forced-forgetting-snyder/210629-forced-forgetting-snyder-nytmag-audm.mp3)

"Where everybody lies about everything of importance, the truthteller, whether he knows it or not, has begun to act; he, too, has engaged himself in political business, for, in the unlikely event that he survives, he has made a start toward changing the world.”

Hannah Arendt, in "Truth and Politics"

#truth #Arendt #quotes #postFactual #reality #totalitarianism #HannahArendt #agnotology #MAHA #fragility #beliefs

"Where everybody lies about everything of importance, the truthteller, whether he knows it or not, has begun to act; he, too, has engaged himself in political business, for, in the unlikely event that he survives, he has made a start toward changing the world.”

Hannah Arendt, in "Truth and Politics"

#truth #Arendt #quotes #postFactual #reality #totalitarianism #HannahArendt #agnotology #MAHA #fragility #beliefs

#Censorship #StateCensorship #Totalitarianism

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/12/are-we-heading-for-censorship/

#Censorship #StateCensorship #Totalitarianism

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/12/are-we-heading-for-censorship/

Let me show you how the far-right movement grows, and in what soil..

''Totalitarian movements use ideology to isolate individuals. Isolate means ‘to cause a person to be or remain alone or apart from others...’' https://aeon.co/essays/for-hannah-arendt-totalitarianism-is-rooted-in-loneliness #HannahArendt #Totalitarianism #FarRight #Resilience #Philosophy

Let me show you how the far-right movement grows, and in what soil..

''Totalitarian movements use ideology to isolate individuals. Isolate means ‘to cause a person to be or remain alone or apart from others...’' https://aeon.co/essays/for-hannah-arendt-totalitarianism-is-rooted-in-loneliness #HannahArendt #Totalitarianism #FarRight #Resilience #Philosophy

The end of the presumption of innocence;
Digital #totalitarianism is here.
#Chatcontrol #EU

#eu wants to #ai analyze all your #whatsapp messages because to protect children from terrorists #wtf #orwell #eu #brussels #sonneborn #chatkontrolle #surveillance #wtf the #eu is exposing itself as a egocentric #power structure that only cares about #control and #power not #democracy
because #freedomofspeech is under #attack from the #eu
#eu #totalitarianism #dictatorship might sound great to some, but in the end is the worst case some expected...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkleqjcDLvU #diepartei

#eu wants to #ai analyze all your #whatsapp messages because to protect children from terrorists #wtf #orwell #eu #brussels #sonneborn #chatkontrolle #surveillance #wtf the #eu is exposing itself as a egocentric #power structure that only cares about #control and #power not #democracy
because #freedomofspeech is under #attack from the #eu
#eu #totalitarianism #dictatorship might sound great to some, but in the end is the worst case some expected...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkleqjcDLvU #diepartei

The Save Europe Act has officially hit the streets of Europe!

All poster, flyer, sticker, and header designs are now available for free on our website. When you put them up, be sure to take a photo and use #SaveEuropeAct so we can repost you!

link

The greatest outcome of this Act would be if all of Europe rose up and led the rest of THE WEST—USA, Canada, Australia, NZ, etc—to retake Western civilization and all together make it better than ever before! There is strength in optimism and optimism in strength! ABN

The Save Europe Act has officially hit the streets of Europe!

All poster, flyer, sticker, and header designs are now available for free on our website. When you put them up, be sure to take a photo and use #SaveEuropeAct so we can repost you!

link

The greatest outcome of this Act would be if all of Europe rose up and led the rest of THE WEST—USA, Canada, Australia, NZ, etc—to retake Western civilization and all together make it better than ever before! There is strength in optimism and optimism in strength! ABN

I truly, deeply hate this "holiday."

#IndependenceDay
#4thOfJuly
#PTSD
#neurodivergence
#trauma
#pets
#cats

#totalitarianism
#fascism
#oligarchy
#TheUSAisNotADemocracy
#TheUSAisNotARepublic

I truly, deeply hate this "holiday."

#IndependenceDay
#4thOfJuly
#PTSD
#neurodivergence
#trauma
#pets
#cats

#totalitarianism
#fascism
#oligarchy
#TheUSAisNotADemocracy
#TheUSAisNotARepublic

Justice Clarence Thomas on progressivism

Justice Clarence Thomas on progressivism

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. In an ever-changing, incomprehensible, world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything is possible and that nothing was true. The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynicism the vice of superior and refined minds.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 11 “The Totalitarian Movement,” sec. 2 (1951)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41872/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #belief #cynicism #elitism #gullibility #mob #totalitarianism #truth

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. In an ever-changing, incomprehensible, world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything is possible and that nothing was true. The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynicism the vice of superior and refined minds.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 11 “The Totalitarian Movement,” sec. 2 (1951)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41872/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #belief #cynicism #elitism #gullibility #mob #totalitarianism #truth

A quotation from Harry Commager

But if our democracy is to flourish it must have criticism, if our government is to function it must have dissent. Only totalitarian governments insist upon conformity and they — as we know — do so at their peril. Without criticism abuses will go unrebuked; without dissent our dynamic system will become static. The American people have a stake in the maintenance of the most thorough-going inquisition into American institutions. They have a stake in nonconformity, for they know that the American genius is nonconformist.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1947-09), “Who Is Loyal to America?” sec. 3, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #harrycommager #Americans #criticism #democracy #dissent #feedback #government #nonconformity #selfcorrection #totalitarianism

A quotation from Harry Commager

But if our democracy is to flourish it must have criticism, if our government is to function it must have dissent. Only totalitarian governments insist upon conformity and they — as we know — do so at their peril. Without criticism abuses will go unrebuked; without dissent our dynamic system will become static. The American people have a stake in the maintenance of the most thorough-going inquisition into American institutions. They have a stake in nonconformity, for they know that the American genius is nonconformist.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1947-09), “Who Is Loyal to America?” sec. 3, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #harrycommager #Americans #criticism #democracy #dissent #feedback #government #nonconformity #selfcorrection #totalitarianism

When totalitarian states realise failure is imminent, the old men running them engage in a kind of nihilist generational expenditure: since there's no future for them, they assume there couldn't possibly be any future (of value) for anyone, and start deliberately squandering the lives and livelihoods of future generations.

Examples:

• Imperial Japan's push for "Ichiogu Gyokusai" (100M shattered jewels, or national self-anihilation), including the suicide attacks the west calls "kamizake"

• Nazi Germany's Volkssturm, forcing child soldiers as young as 12 to fight, and the "Nero-Befehl" to leave no infrastructure for any Germans left alive after the war

Be prepared for similar scorched-earth policies if some of the world's current authoritarians start losing their grip on power.

#authoritarianism #totalitarianism #history