Totalitarianism means precisely what it says. Of course you are not permitted to oppose, but more than that and more terrible, you are not even permitted to consent. You are only allowed to surrender, both mind and soul to a vague and ill-defined power, to a pervasive, half-hidden terror. In short, you are required to give up everything that makes you, you. What is incredible, is that so may people are not only willing, but eager to do just that...