The Permanent Purge

Zbiegniew Brzezinski then wrote about Soviets, perhaps the first or more logically the most immediately visible model then for this phenomena (inquisition did precede it, so Soviets were definitely following that, and other such, after all) of a permanent purge that is necessary to keep up any sort of a totalitarian absolute model of society.

Today it is more visible in more than one state, culture, geographical part of the word. A must read book for the simplest exposition on such totalitarian systems and purges needed to keep them in business.

The opposite of this of course is the ever shrill questioning and stymieing of a secular, democratic society by various interest groups, including but not limited to publicity based professions with a need of sensational sound byte every other minute, the said totalitarian regimes and cultures that would devour the secular, democratic cultures and states by using the machinery of open tolerant acceptance along with the checks and balances in the legal system, to destroy the secular and democratic open society so the totalitarian regime could then take over, or split with other such powers.

This opposite of the permanent purge, or rather the mirror image, is too an ever more familiar phenomena these days, across the globe.