{"id":17881,"date":"2024-04-19T12:34:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T16:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awarningministry.com\/?p=17881"},"modified":"2024-04-19T12:37:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T16:37:25","slug":"17881","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awarningministry.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/17881\/","title":{"rendered":"Totalitarianism: A New Name for an Old Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hillsdale.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Students-in-Library-305x170.jpg\" alt=\"Hillsdale students study in the library\"\/><figcaption> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hillsdale.edu\/?sc=MK421PP3&amp;utm_source=bing&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=329599938&amp;utm_content=81913697614954&amp;msclkid=0e26f7e83a331e21a7c691caa6ac6a5e&amp;nwk=o&amp;d=c\">Hillsdale College &#8211; Developing Minds. Improving Hearts.<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Roger%20Fulk\/Downloads\/Totalitarianism_%20A%20New%20Name%20for%20an%20Old%20Thing%20-%20Apr.%2019,%202024%3B%20Apologetics%3B%20Sports.pdf\"><strong>Totalitarianism_ A New Name for an Old Thing &#8211; Apr. 19, 2024; Apologetics; Sports.pdf<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nTotalitarianism: A New Name for an Old\nThing\nThis semester, I am teaching a course on totalitarianism in which we are\nreading the novels of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Arthur Koestler.\nTotalitarianism is the new name for an old and wicked thing: tyranny. It\ndiffers from tyranny in being \u201cideological\u201d and \u201cscientific.\u201d\nIdeology, which Winston Churchill referred to only as an \u201cugly word,\u201d\ntakes an idea and turns it into a system. This system becomes a pattern\nfor remaking the world. Science, an ancient word for \u201cknowing,\u201d is often\ndistorted today into a systematic form of making and remaking. The\nscientific method is a powerful tool of knowing and thus a blessing, but it\ncan be used to contrive ways to remake everything.\nThese two things, science and ideology, are related. Ideology proclaims\nthat the difference between men and women is only a matter of what we\nthink; science goes to work altering men and women in an attempt to\neliminate these differences. In neither case is nature respected; it is a\nthing not to be understood, but to be conquered.\nThe classics teach that the purpose of tyranny is to satisfy the appetites\nof the tyrant. Totalitarianism has the same purpose, now modified so that\nthose appetites are expressed in terms of ideology. This modification\ngives them an air of justification and universal applicability. The\ntechniques of modern science can make powerful devices of every kind.\nTotalitarianism has, therefore, a wider spread and more comprehensive\ncontrol than any form of ancient tyranny. In several cases, the body count\nhas been in the tens of millions.\nYet, the classics teach that tyranny is hard to maintain. People do not like\nit. How, then, can it persist? One learns from several classic authors that\nthe tyrants who last diminish the people they rule. Tyrants destroy their\nfriendships, their privacy, and their high thoughts. They distract them\nwith trivial pursuits. They hamper their opportunity and, eventually, their\nability to learn.\nIn the novels we read in my course, we see that totalitarianism uses these\nsame devices, scientifically applied. In Orwell\u2019s 1984, everyone is\nwatched. Words are controlled. Facial expressions are surveilled for\nevidence of what one is thinking. Arrests and punishments are arbitrary\nand cruel to teach people hopelessness.\nThe totalitarian regime of Huxley\u2019s Brave New World is different. People\nare raised to live for pleasure and conformity. They are distracted by\nconstant low activities. Sexual promiscuity is compelled. No family is\npermitted, nor are serious friendships. \u201cEveryone belongs to everyone\nelse\u201d is the slogan.\nIt turns out that Huxley and Orwell knew each other for decades. They\ncorresponded about whether a totalitarian future would use pleasure or\ncruelty to control and degrade the people.\nWe are soon to offer an online course on these totalitarian novels. You can\njoin us in pondering which of them, or neither, was correct.\nBest regards,\nLarry P. Arnn\nPresident of Hillsdale College\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Totalitarianism_ A New Name for an Old Thing &#8211; Apr. 19, 2024; Apologetics; Sports.pdf Totalitarianism: A New Name for an Old Thing This semester, I am teaching a course on totalitarianism in which we are reading the novels of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Arthur Koestler. 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