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In reply to the discussion: Former Top NSA Official: “We Are Now In A Police State” [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)It was estimated that in our Revolutionary War a third supported, a third opposed, a third didn't care. And that was in a politicized time of war.
I can't say we have reached a totalitarian state (we are Definitely a corporate state, and probably, as the OP mentions, near a police state), but we can make observations about totalitarianism. One, it is a relatively new form of governance, and two, it is rather banal; in our times, behind the flashbang of carnival media, homogeneity of MSM, and toilet-tongue social communications is a stullifying level of dispirited boredom and detachment.
I do find the NSA's fascination with us at once totalitarian in concept and broadly comical. It's like they know the system can't/won't stop them, but they don't quite know what to do with all the money and guns. Well, some of the guns.