Totality

Not to be mistaken with unity.

It was the Bolsheviks who were the first to be so audacious to say it. And Lenin to attempt it. Unity through totality. Freedom through servitude.

It is best left unsaid. That's what we've learned. That's why we shroud and cloak the notes and papers and documents for 30 years, and then when we release them we turn them into some sort of strange, pragmatic art with carefully placed ink blots and indecipherable sentence fragments.


If you can destroy all differences, do you achieve heaven? If every human being with a different point of view is simply exterminated, then can you call what's left freedom?

Is history the only judge?

It didn't work for the Bolsheviks.

But we've figured out a better way. The problem you see, was that the Bolsheviks went too far in their definitions. See what you have to do, is you have to narrow it down to what matters, and allow for differences in what doesn't. That's the trick. Because then you have totality, but no one knows it. And everyone will call it freedom.

- posted by Sigurd10/27/2004 10:06:00 PM