Who Controls the Public Mind?

"To make a totalitarian system function efficiently," writes Hayek, "it is not enough that everybody should be forced to work for the same ends. It is essential that the people should come to regard them as their own ends."

This requires several steps. There needs to be an ideology; that is, a manufactured system of belief that defines a new heaven, a possible hell, and a means of reaching one and avoiding the other. There needs to be propaganda surrounding that ideology, pushed out through every possible venue. And there needs to be censorship of competing views.

All three of these are necessary for a consistent totalitarianism that seeks to manage the public mind. Hayek writes that all such attempts necessarily attack truth and morals: "They are destructive of all morals because they undermine one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and the respect for truth."

Indeed, the totalitarian system must replace all old or competing truths with one truth as defined by the party in power according to its own ends.

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