Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rash as to interpret the most eerie and profound of all the fables written by the apocalyptic insurance clerk of Prague. Is The Trial a psychotic nightmare, the case history of a persecution complex, an allegory on the theme of justice, a prophetic vision of the totalitarian state, an analysis of Man's relation to the Absolute...
...preservation of the prerogatives of people of a sovereign state, their right to deal exclusively with domestic problems and the absolute and unqualified denial of a totalitarian state in the United States--these principles are just as vital as, and more intimately affect, the welfare of every man, woman, and child in America than even such important questions as foreign policy and all other serious questions which we face today, important as those issues are. May God forbid that your respective states and mine, our counties, our cities, our farms, and our businesses shall ever be subject to Washington bureaucratic...
There is no such thing as a vacuum in politics or government. If the rights of a sovereign state and local units of government are taken away, they will be replaced by a totalitarian government--a police state. Only our Constitution stands between the people and a dictatorship. If politicians are allowed to circumvent, misconstrue, cripple or disobey the Constitution, then Constitutional government is in jeopardy and the liberty and freedom and right of every American citizen to the pursuit of happiness are menaced...
Almost to the point of tedium Dr. Barnett warned of the demise of state power. He told us that "the preservation of the prerogatives of people of a sovereign state, their right to deal exclusively with domestic problems and the absolute and unqualified denial of a totalitarian state in the United States--these principles are just as vital as, and more intimately affect, the welfare of every man, woman and child in America than even such important questions as foreign policy ..." There is, of course, no meaning in this grandiose concoction of words. But whatever message the great orator might...
...fact are tantalizing opposites that contradict everything they know. In The Trial Kafka's hero asserts his innocence until echoes of his own voice convince him of his guilt. Life becomes absurd in a universe whose nature is that guiltless men shall be punished. Kafka never knew the totalitarian state that his intuition prefigured. But he knew the weight and layers of a hostile environment. He was brought up in the ghetto of the German-speaking Jews of Prague, surrounded by hostile Slavs who, in turn, were under the thumb of the dying Austrian Empire...