Totalitarianisms work by mass denial. Although living conditions can actually be bad, the public can
pjmedia.com Totalitarianisms work by mass denial. Although living conditions can actually be bad, the public can be brainwashed through hypnotic sloganeering into willing reality away. The result is a kind of mass dishonesty called “preference falsification.” But it is fragile. The danger for the hypnotist is if the public snaps out of it. Once the subject wakes up the problem for the hypnotist becomes reality itself. We all know the movie dialogue:
“Say, where am I?”
“Relax. Just look into my eyes. You are sleepy. Sleepy.”
“I asked you where am I? Where. Am. I?”
Of course if the public really wakes up in a nice place it soon goes back to sleep reassured that all is well. But if it wakes up in a place where all the furniture is painted cardboard surrounded by strange, depraved, leering faces, the public’s anxiety soon increases. That awakening from illusion was what happened to Romanian dictator Nikolai Ceausescu in December, 1989. One moment he was king of the world, issuing orders, making threats. The next he was running for his life after the Romanian public realized how little he truly was. Something like this happened on a smaller scale after the Trump-Biden debate of June, 2024. Once suggested by Nancy Pelosi as a candidate figure for Mount Rushmore, the incumbent’s campaign collapsed when the public realized the aged president was senile. NBC opinion writers lamented:
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