[Bryanw92]

>>Yes. Like Ilyin said, it is hypnotic.

I guess that’s the best way to explain it. When put in that frame of reference, its easy to understand that we can’t beat them by rational, and peaceful, means. You don’t break a hypnotic trance by reasoning someone out of it.

[annalex]

In the Bible we often read a prophet speaking of one thing but we see a meaning that he, it seems, himself was not entirely aware of; we understand the prophetic meaning because we read it through the New Testament prism, which reveals it.

Something similar happens here, I think. Let us read this again:

The rule of law rests entirely on the vocation of the human person – person spiritual, free, plenipotentiary, self-controlling in the soul and in the business, that is, it rests upon the loyal sense of justice. A totalitarian regime, on the contrary, rests on a terrorist suggestion. People are facing unemployment, deprivation of rights, separation from family, loss of family and children, arrest, jail, inquisitorial interrogation, humiliation, beatings, torture, exile, the death in a labor concentration camp of hunger, cold and fatigue; under the pressure of this all-encompassing fear they are inculcated into full obedience, shamelessly materialistic world view, the systematic mutual denunciation, readiness for whatever falsehood and immorality and into consent to live from hand to mouth and with bare threads covering their bodies, under back-breaking work. And moreover, they are taught "the pathos of the communist revolution" and the absurd sense of superiority over all other nations, in other words, they are taught the pride of their own insanity and the illusion of their own prosperity. Under the influence of this terrorist hypnosis they are infected with a blind faith in the unnaturality of communism, tragicomic conceit and contemptuous distrust of anything that is not coming from (Soviet! Communist!) pseudo-Russia.

This hypnosis infiltrates and cripples their souls - for a long time, for decades, in generations; they no longer notice its origin, they do not understand from where they have this obsessive pride, and some of them (thank God - not all!), once abroad, wandering in a sick, totalitarian state of the soul on the face of the earth, trusting no one, with malice and contempt meeting earlier immigrants and fall from time to time in the fits of painful self-importance. This is the remains of the thirty-year [1917-1947] hypnosis that can only gradually be overcome and eradicated. These are the unique features of this sick and monstrous regime.

The direct meaning is: the Russian people were intimidated into animal-like existence by the Soviet terror, which was more pervasive than anything the human history prepared us for: "People are facing unemployment, deprivation of rights, separation from family, loss of family and children, arrest, jail, inquisitorial interrogation, humiliation, beatings, torture, exile, the death in a labor concentration camp of hunger, cold and fatigue; under the pressure of this all-encompassing fear they are inculcated into full obedience".

From terror follows fear and from fear -- obedience. From obedience follows the way of life: "shamelessly materialistic world view, the systematic mutual denunciation, readiness for whatever falsehood and immorality and into consent to live from hand to mouth and with bare threads covering their bodies, under back-breaking work". Finally, from the way of life follows aggressive superiority: "they are taught the pride of their own insanity and the illusion of their own prosperity. Under the influence of this terrorist hypnosis they are infected with a blind faith in the unnaturality of communism, tragicomic conceit and contemptuous distrust of anything [foreign]". That completes the formation of a new nation from the original one: "This hypnosis infiltrates and cripples their souls - for a long time, for decades, in generations; they no longer notice its origin, they do not understand from where they have this obsessive pride".

But this is the order the ingredients were mixed in 1917-1947. We, Americans, recognize the ingredients but not the order of mixing them. Terror we did not have yet; fear is just beginning to be felt, as people gradually realize that the old-fashioned prosperity is slipping away and the new prosperity is all in serving the new Leviathan: in Obamacare, the lawyering regulatory class, the education bureaucracy, the political hacks, the Wall-street-Bernanke money pump. Pervasive control? We got the technology and we a ready to use it. And we got the ideology to drive up the fervor: we are the nation that conquered discrimination, religion, racism, homophobia, national borders, and lead the world into the 21 century.

So could it be that the Obama hypnosis -- which is evident to anyone who looks -- is not the result of terror, but rather of the left wing ideology itself? It is, after all, not Cheka but the multimillion Russian peasantry that got itself drunk and went, beady-eyed, to trash everything of value, selling off its allies in the war, bayonetting the officers and socializing girls. That was not before the terror but the origin of the terror: the hypnotic state of a nation that had guns but lost religion.