Vaclav Havel captures the nature of what he called the "post-totalitarian" system. He writes of a state that controls its citizens by citing an ideology that no one any longer believes in.
"That is why," he writes, "life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government...the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his or her ultimate liberation; depriving people of information is called making it available....banning of independent thought becomes the most scientific of worldviews; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past, it falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future." Daniel McAdams
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