Sunday, November 10, 2019
Totalitarianism is an evasive concept
Sweet and Sour Margaret
Atwood
In
this second book on the Republic of Gilead, we can be satisfied by the end of
it, but we are disappointed because it does not show at all how such
totalitarian states can fail and fall. What's more, Margaret Atwood falls in
the trap of totalitarianism without defining a term that is over-used and often
abused in all the various media that are bombarding us with a good old western
ideology that centers all life on a vision of God as the rule giver, the disciplinary
master of humanity. Understand me well. Individualism and individual
freedom is just a disguise for conformity under the skirt, in the pants, behind
the shirt, beyond the briefs. You are free to be yourself provided you do not
ask the reference to God in the US, to the Queen in GB, to secularism (laïcité)
in France, etc., is never questioned and any questioning will mean rejection
and marginalization and maybe even prison or death if you are young, male and
black in the US. And do not be Remain please, be Brexit, and no please here,
just a boring Boris with no French mustard but with British Marmite, and maybe
if Trump is still in power US Heinz Ketchup.
Publication Date: 1979
Publication Name: Medium.com
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 3:58 AM 
