A totalitarian society seeks to substitute actual reality with its own limited, artificial conception of reality using asymmetrical top-down power and force, producing a population of ghosts.
The greatest crime of this society is to replace that organically generated self with a concocted collective self by force, in an inauthentic attempt to bypass the difficult road to spontaneous collective feeling, or the experience of self knowledge and outer reconciliation that has to occur in each individual to produce a true collective.
The ghosts arise through the mechanical administration of this society: the society still works; it proceeds fully functional through the administration of a rigid and precise code of operations, but underneath such operation sprawls the multitude of selves lying dormant on some ethereal dimension of social potentialities where they remain imprisoned, impotent, and unfulfilled.
