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Thinkers like George Orwell and Hannah Arendt addressed this question decades ago, noting that the erosion of privacy is a hallmark of exploitative systems — such as plantation slavery, totalitarian regimes like Nazi Germany and patriarchy.

But it’s really the same, because the totalitarian government is trying to take away our free choice, how to think and how to create.”

The totalitarian subject thrives in a milieu of manufactured crises and engineered divisions, where cruelty becomes virtue and the lust for domination is mistaken for strength.

“That is a totalitarian idea and only something that a far-right party would say,” he told reporters Thursday.

In authoritarian or totalitarian regimes, history and memory belong to the powerful.