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"and it is important to realise that its [totalitarianism] control of thought is not only negative, but positive. it not only forbids you to express, even to think, certain thoughts but it dictates what you shall think, it creates an ideology for you, it tries to govern your emotional life as well as setting up a code of conduct. and, as far as possible, it isolates you from the outside world, it shuts you up in an artificial universe in which you have no standards of comparison. the totalitarian state tries, at any rate, to control the thoughts and emotions of its subjects at least as completely as it controls their actions." george orwell. from literature and totalitarianism_______________________________"all things not forbidden are compulsory". t.h. white. from the once and future king_____________________________i hear a lot of calls to "resist" don trump...which is fine as far as it goes but i am inclined to think he is just another mouthpiece/bit player in an ongoing corporate agenda that is focused on creating control through debt peonage and, in and of himself, not that important...ridding the white house of him won't alter that agenda one scintilla...you can bemoan the passing of barry obama but the trans-pacific partnership was moving along on his watch and that was no friend of anyone who works for an hourly wage...and hillary wouldn't have been less venal...just less obvious..the header is another orwell quote and it demonstrates that the corporate agenda is the totalitarian agenda...we are branded...divided..made to compete for the privilege of going into debt ( and so creating wealth ) for material goods that we are manipulated into desiring...totalitarian control need not be overt and it has been with us in a highly refined system that is so enculturated we hardly notice for a long while...and it takes a great deal of strength, work, and disregard for the prevailing cultural norms to see what is, to borrow from orewell again, what is "in front of your nose"...the current administration is just one more act in the play publius drafted long ago.