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The totalitarian moment: Europe in the ‘30S to ‘50S
Podcast: lecture by Bruno Waterfield recorded at the Battle of ideas 2016
Across Europe in the 1930s a battle opened as totalitarians of
the right and left sought power over man’s soul. This was not merely an
exercise in traditional tyranny or authoritarianism but an attempt to
break down informal relationships, to assault sovereignty and
independence at the level of the nation and the individual. To destroy
those boundaries of freedom that make us human, even to attack the mind
itself. In Orwell’s 1984, O’Brien, the sinister party intellectual sets
out the totalitarian project. “The real power, the power we have to
fight for night and day, is not power over things but over men,” he
tells Winston Smith. “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and
putting them together in new shapes of your own choosing.”
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Podcast: lecture by Bruno Waterfield recorded at the Battle of ideas 2016
Across Europe in the 1930s a battle opened as totalitarians of
the right and left sought power over man’s soul. This was not merely an
exercise in traditional tyranny or authoritarianism but an attempt to
break down informal relationships, to assault sovereignty and
independence at the level of the nation and the individual. To destroy
those boundaries of freedom that make us human, even to attack the mind
itself. In Orwell’s 1984, O’Brien, the sinister party intellectual sets
out the totalitarian project. “The real power, the power we have to
fight for night and day, is not power over things but over men,” he
tells Winston Smith. “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and
putting them together in new shapes of your own choosing.”
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