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The New Totalitarian Society
The New Totalitarian Society

Author(s): Emil Vlajki
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Government/Political systems, Politics and religion, Sociology of Politics, Globalization
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Banjoj Luci
Keywords: Totalitarianism; totalitarian society; New World Order; globalization; religion; Western civilizations;

Summary/Abstract: The new totalitarian society is a euphemized expression denoting the New World Order, which in itself denotes the American globalization. The underpinning of this mindset is rationality, which is characterristic of Western civilization. Christianity engendered rationality by introducing it through St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, and especially formal logic. Since it is obvious that religion and logic cannot ultimately be harmonized, this combination has proven lethal in many cases throughout history. For instance, the Inquisition, which, contrary to what happened at scholastic universities, severely berated rational thinking in practice. Catholicism helped carry out genocide against the Jews, and Orthodoxy is in a certain manner tied in with Stalinism. The new totalitarian society is anchored in American Protestantism. On the whole, Christian rationalism is a sphere of science, techniques and technologies efficiently employed to promote the West to the status of a society of plenty and the conception of human rights, which turn into their opposite and irrational behavior of the worst kind. An example of such inhumanity is the attack against Yugoslavia/Serbia in 1999.

  • Issue Year: 1/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 147-161
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English