The reality of reshaping movements

The decay of the ruling elites in the 19th century and the decay of the authority those ruling elites represented eventually found expression, in the 20th century, in the decay of the subject populations and in the decay of the legitimacy those subject populations embodied. 

The totalitarian regimes fed off of the corruption of civil society. Totalitarianism takes hold when the practice rather than just the theory incorporate the reality of the reshaping movements, which movements are dedicated to reshaping the identity of its adherents. 

Totalitarianism is a social and a political and a spiritual malady that infects the very deepest strata of a healthy human society. Seen thus, it is easy to recognize the evil in totalitarianism and the need for healthy societies to root that avodah zarah out, down to the man, woman, child and livestock.