Totalitarian state

In Paris, besides the scientific exchanges, there were also sharp political discussions in which some democratic scientists protested against the political opinions of their colleagues from totalitarian states. After his return to Italy, Bonino replied with a reference to these tensions in the pages of the regime scientific review journal La Chimica e l lndustria. There he characterized the protests as an inopportune disharmony without real purpose. Moreover, he emphasized that the direction modern scientific collaboration was taking at the international level, reflected the... 

The therapeutic state seeks to remedy personal and socialproblems defined as diseases its beneficiaries are often helped against their will it is a totalitarian state, governed by the rule of therapeutic discretion. 

Formerly, people rushed to embrace totalitarian states. Now they rush to embrace the therapeutic state. When they discover that the therapeutic state is about tyranny, not therapy, it will be too late. 

Werke concentration camp on the outskirts of Auschwitz, comparable to the rocket-building labor camp at Peenemunde that hosts one of Pyn-chon s set-pieces in Gravity s Rainbow. Seed says that Pynchon concentrates on IG as a process, a steady relentless agglomeration of power through mergers, takeovers and contracts [...] IG becomes the model of the totalitarian state . It is, indeed, the prototype of the modem military-industrial complex but one in which the tentacles of power are entwined with elements of the occult and chthonic. 

The secret police of modern totalitarian states have faithfully copied this inquisitorial method. The Mental Health Movements of modern Therapeutic States have improved upon it Institutional psychiatrists (and psychologists, social workers, etc.) act as and believe themselves to be the individual s ally, friend, and therapist, when, in fact, they are his adversary. Should the patient confide his fears or suspicions to them, they will interpret these as signs of mental illness and so report to their employer should the patient fail to co-operate with them, they will interpret his refusal as itself a sign of mental illness and will again so report to their employer. 

As I have stressed throughout this book, the de-moralization and de-politicalization of social problems, and their transformation into problems of medicine and treatment, is a characteristic modern totalitarian states (both National Socialist and Communist) share with modern bureaucratic states. Moreover, although the degree and the directness of the destructiveness which such therapeutic rhetoric justifies may vary from one political system to another, its essential aim is always the same to identify, stigmatize, and control particular segments of the population. 

While the oppositiOTi he faced from the scientific community decreased, new storm clouds developed in 1933, when the Nazis assumed power. What did the totalitarian state have in store for Staudinger as head of the chemical institute at Freiburg University And how did he position himself poUticaUy with respect to the fascist rulers, who operated in line with their weU-known motto If you re not for us, then you are against us ... 

The world s most famous, mainly Western architects have been attracted to China and other totalitarian states partly because governments and businesses in such settings are fearless clients, the kind who commit serious money and laugh in the face of local opposition (Lacayo, 2008 54). The different speeds at which the new terminals were approved and built in London-Heathrow and Beijing-Capital are testament to the sort of characteristics that make China appealing to elite architects. 

When K lor K = 1.07 as shown in Fig. 2.5 an interpretation in terms of a society at the crossroads between a liberal and a totalitarian state can be made. The reason for this is the higher willingness of the individual to adapt to the prevailing opinion. As can be seen in Figs. 2.3 b and c and Fig. 2.5 the value iTc = 1 is the critical value of the trend parameter k, where for (5 = 0 the potential (2.129) changes from the monostable to the bistable form when all the possible consequences for bifurcation etc., as discussed in Sect. 2.3, can be observed. 

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