Nicolae, Laura, 112, 115
1917 Revolution, xv, 21, 27, 66, 117
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell), 111, 114, 120
Notes from the Underground (Scruton), 122
Obama, Barack, 50
offset printing machine, 166
Ogorodnikov, Alexander, 111, 157, 158, 160–61, 195–98
openness, 149
oppression, Soviet, 21
Oprisan, Constantine, 201–4
organizing, 179–80
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Arendt), 30–31
Orwell, George, 14–15, 75–76
Nineteen Eighty-Four by, 111, 114, 120
Palko, Vlado, 66–67
parallel polis, 120–22
pariahs, xii, 87
Parkinson, Patrick, 155–56
Pastor, Judit, 106–7
pastoral lifeline, small groups as, 171–74
pastors, 172
patience, 170
PayPal, 80, 89
Permanent Record (Snowden), 82–83
persecution, 106, 107, 162
“the personal is political,” 39
Philistines, 55
phobias, 57–58
Pill of Murti-Bing, 14, 15–16
Pink Police State, 10–11, 83, 184
Piteşti Experiment, 199–204
pizzeria, x
plays, 118
Poglajen, Tomislav, 3
Poland, 74, 118, 147
political correctness, 8, 56, 108
political myths, 67
politics
identity, 61, 65
of surveillance, 79–83
Popiełuszko, Jerzy, 147–48, 176
Popkov, Viktor, 158–59
pornography, 44–45
positivism, 52–53
post-Christian world, xiii, 162, 163
Postman, Neil, 88
postmodern mode of existence, 10–13
power, 60–61, 155–60
Prague, Czech Republic, 129–30
prayer, 154, 161, 196–97
preachers, 172
pre-conditions of totalitarianism, 93
pressures, 102
pre-totalitarian culture, 36, 38, 44, 93
prison experiences of Ogorodnikov, 195–98
privacy, 69–70, 71, 83, 90–91
progress, 48, 49
modernity as, 50–53
as religion, 54–56
progressive militancy, xiii
progressives, xi–xii, 48
progressivism, 55–56
Prometheanism, 23, 44–45
propaganda, 35–38, 37, 108–9, 119
prophets, 3
prudence, 105–7, 205
Putnam, Robert, 31, 32
radicalism, 25, 26
Rand, Ayn, 72
Ratzinger, Joseph, 116
Reagan, Ronald, 195
reality, 62–63, 120
Red Terror, 58–59
rejecting doublethink, 103–5
relativism, dictatorship of, 116
religion, 44, 51, 117
American dream held by, 53
hope of, xv
progress as, 54–56
rival, 162, 163, 188–89
“see, judge, act” motto and, 162–63
totalitarian resistance through, 151–52
repentance, 197
resistance to soft totalitarianism, xv, 213–14
revolutionaries, 13, 26, 42, 43
revolutionary class, intellectuals as, 41–43
Rieff, Philip, 11, 34
rival religions, 162, 163, 188–89
Romania, 199
Romaszewski, Zbigniew, 179–80
Romaszewska, Zofia, 179–80
Rusanova, Olga, 103
Russia, 21–23, 47–48, 145–46, 173
appeal of communism in, 24–27
Day of Remembrance in, 123
KGB of, 159, 198
Moscow, 21, 47, 123, 156–57, 158–59
saboteurs of God, 212–14
sacramental theology, 204
sacrifices
for greater good, 140–41
honoring, 210
sacrilege, 200
saints, 99, 100, 178, 200–201
Saint-Simon, Henri de, 52
salons, 144
Sályi, Tamás, 49, 105–6, 116–17
samizdat (underground literature), 166, 167, 168
sanctuary cities, 120–22
science, 25, 52, 53
Scripture, 153–54, 192
Scruton, Roger, 56–58, 121, 122, 179
secret police, 69–70, 135, 159, 170, 177, 198
secret room, 166–67
secret seminars, 121, 122
secular liberals, 175, 176
“see, judge, act” motto
families and, 149–50
history and, 126–27
Kolaković using, 5, 19
religion and, 162–63
solidarity and, 180–82
suffering and, 205–7
truth and, 107–9
self-destructive behavior, 187
self-fulfillment, 184
self-sacrifice, 201
seminars, 121, 122, 144, 157–58, 159
sensualism, 44
Seraphim of Sarov (saint), 99
sermons, 159–60
service
to Christ, 134
to others, 143–45
sexuality, 35, 64
shelter from gathering storm, 93–94
Silicon Valley, 80–81
Šimulčik, Ján, 165–66, 167–68, 170
Sipko, Yuri, 102, 146–47, 172–74, 185–86
1619 Project, 36–37
SJWs. See social justice warriors
Skibiński, Paweł, 117, 118–20
Slezkine, Yuri, 25–26, 50, 55–56
Slovak Catholicism, 4
small groups, 179, 181
fellowship of, 150, 182
as pastoral lifeline, 171–74
smart home, 79
smartphones, 78–79
smart speakers, 69, 76
Smith, Christian, 184
Snowden, Edward, 70, 82–83
social atomization, 31–32
social control, 89–90
social credit systems
of China, 86–87
Westernized version of, 92
social importance of families, 145–48
social justice
Christianity and, 63–65
cult of, 9–10, 42–43, 59–60
ideologies of, xv, 94
intersectionality of, 62
social justice warriors (SJWs), 10, 42–43, 46, 59–61, 62–63
social media, x, 37, 41, 79–80, 82
social responsibility, corporate, 73–74, 75
society
communist, 97–98
fear of weirdness in, 139
loyalty compared with expertise in, 39–41
soft totalitarianism, xiii, xiv, 10–11, 56, 58
gentleness of, 9–10
ideologies and, 15
resistance to, xv, 213–14
solidarity, 155, 163
Christianity and, 174–77, 181
of Krčméry, 192–93
“see, judge, >act” motto and, 180–82
Solidarity (trade union), 147
solitary confinement, 196, 197
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 17–18, 23–24
Gulag Archipelago, xiv, 165, 193–94, 199
“Live Not by Lies!” essay of, xiv, 214
Soviet Bloc, xii, xiv
Soviet communism, 7, 22, 28–29
Soviet oppression, 21
spiritual exercises of Krčméry, 152–55
StB (Czechoslovak secret police), 135
stories, 108–9, 126, 138
The Stranger (Camus), 158
strength from weakness of others, 201–4
Strittmatter, Kai, 87, 88
suffering, 182, 183–84
accepting, 210, 211
without bitterness, 191–93
as gift, 193–99
Kaleda on, 194–95
Komáromi on, 186–87
“see, judge, act” motto and, 205–7
as testimony to truth, 185–88
surveillance, 11, 68, 69–71
capitalism, 75–79, 93
China using, 84, 85–86
politics of, 79–83
surveys, on communism, 112
Suslova, Marina Nikonovna, 125–26
Taylor, Flagg, 66
technology, 52, 53
facial recognition, 86
information, 71, 125
telling truth, 105–7
temptation of totalitarianism, 29
Tertullian, 148
theology, sacramental, 204
therapeutic culture, as postmodern mode of existence, 10–13
This Saved Us (Krčméry), 153
thoughtcrimes, 57–58
Tolkien, J. R. R., 138
torture, 23, 153, 192, 193, 199–200
totalitarianism, ix, x–xi, 3, 8, 28
. See also soft totalitarianism
Arendt on, 30–31, 32, 39, 42, 45–46
definition of, 30
families and, 130–35
new, 7, 185
pre-conditions of, 93
religion as resistance to, 151–52
temptation of, 29
traditional families, 132–33
traditions, 116, 117, 126, 127
transgression, desire for, 34–35
The Triumph of the Therapeutic (Rieff), 11
Trump, Donald, 39–40
truth, 61, 213
living in, 17–19, 99, 101
“see, judge, act” motto and, 107–9
suffering as testimony to, 185–88
telling, 105–7
Twenge, Jean, 91–92
Twitter, 80, 82
tyranny, 17, 67, 184, 212–13
Uhl, Petr, 143
Ukraine, 125
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kundera), 91
underground church, 6, 130, 165, 171
Mikloško on, 169–70
power of, 155–60
Šimulčik on, 167–68
useful lies, 35–38
values, Christian, 211
Vaško, Václav, 5
Velvet Revolution, 6, 90, 140, 155, 209
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, 112
voting, 18, 51, 98
Vox party (Spain), 82
weakness of others, strength from, 201–4
We Have Been Harmonized (Strittmatter), 87
weirdness, fear of, 139
Westernized version of social credit system, 92
wider movements, 142–43
Witkiewicz, Stanisław, 15
Wittner, Mária, 104–5, 187–88
Wojtyła, Karol, 117–18
woke capitalism, 71–75
wokeness, 8, 17
Wurmbrand, Richard, 155, 199–201, 204
Xi Jinping, 87
young people, 91–92, 183, 184
Young Pioneers (communist youth league), 102
YouTube, 80
Zionist Imperialist Conspiracy, 57
Zuboff, Shoshana, 76, 77, 79, 81
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