Facinating read by Joost Meerloo. Though published in 1956, your spine tingles as you realize the fictional 'Totalitaria' is the place we live in today.
'Totalitaria needs the images of outside enemies. Imaginary cruel monsters who spread plague and disease to justify it's own internal troubles.
Projecting blame onto others reinforces each citizen's sense of participation in the community and stills the nagging internal voice demanding he act as a responsible individual.'
In Criminalization 'The great corruption of Civilized Standards'
'A party member no longer has to suppress or reject his primitive impulses. The system assumes the full burden of his guilt and hands him a ready made list of thousands of justifications and exculpations for the release of his SADISTIC IMPULSES.'
