Out of a lifetime of reading, I can recall no other book in which a tone of overriding arrogance was so implacably sustained. Its shrillness is without reprieve. Its dogmatism is without appeal. In addition, the mind which finds this tone natural to it shares other characteristics of its type. 1) It consistently mistakes raw force for strength, and the rawer the force, the more reverent the posture of the mind before it. 2) It supposes itself to be the bringer of a final revelation. Therefore, resistance to the Message cannot be tolerated because disagreement can never be merely honest, prudent, or just humanly fallible. Dissent from revelation so final (because, the author would say, so reasonable) can only be willfully wicked.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2005/01/big-sister-watching-you-whittaker-chambers/
This quote is from Whittaker Chambers’ famous review of Atlas Shrugged, but things have changed since 1957, when the review was written, and now much of writing is like this.
CEOs running the government is just as totalitarian as the government running the corporations.
Progress would involve moving beyond one size fits all solutions .
https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/is-federalism-the-future
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