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Julien Garon-Carrier's avatar

Sir, I just finished your book. I really liked it. And I will say that it is quite accurate, but totalitarianism has change from the time Arendt wrote on that topic. The great Québécois sociologist Michel Freitag died in 2009, but a posthumous book call Formes de la société was publish in 2020 on his theory of totalitarianism. Basically, the way you analyzed this phenomena is what he called "archaic totalitarianism". In our time, in the postmodernism time, there is a new form of this phenomena.

Also, at the page 184, you said that the knowledge coming from God is a knowledge coming from the outside. Of course, the scriptures were given to all nations of the world by God through his incarnate Avatar, which are Jesus, Bouddha, Khrisna, etc., but what they all urged us to do, is to go inside to find God and become one with the Holy Ghost. So the sources ove all knowledge is inside man, through union of the mind and the soul, at first, and then with God through Spirit to reach Cosmic consciousness. So when you write : "Therefore, the source of all knowledge lay outside man", you have it wrong. It is the complete opposite that is true.

It is the mechanistic worldview that consider everything from the outisde. If you consider things from the inside you feel that everything is one, every living things are energy in the dream of God. But from the outside, everything feels like stranger to you because you cant have empathy for the living, you are in a position emperical observer.

Let me finish with a quote from Carl Gustav Jung : "Celui qui regarde à l’extérieur de soi ne fait que rêver ; celui qui regarde en soi se réveille."

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