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Are We Living Under Therapeutic Totalitarianism?
We’re in an age of “therapeutic totalitarianism,” the writer Rod Dreher argues, “where they give you everything you want, all the drugs, the porn, the sex, the entertainment.” All that’s required in return? “You just have to surrender your humanity,” he says on “Interesting Times.”
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The totalitarianism we have is not the police state pain, terror, cruelty of Orwell, but the therapeutic totalitarianism of Huxley, where they give you everything you want, all the drugs, the porn, the sex, the entertainment, everything’s taken care of. But you just have to surrender your humanity. Point is, this is the totalitarianism we have. We have created a world, and especially with the generation raised on digital culture in which they cannot bear any friction, they see any friction as intolerable suffering. And they will surrender even their liberties. And even, I think, ultimately their humanity to escape that anxiety.
We’re in an age of “therapeutic totalitarianism,” the writer Rod Dreher argues, “where they give you everything you want, all the drugs, the porn, the sex, the entertainment.” All that’s required in return? “You just have to surrender your humanity,” he says on “Interesting Times.”
July 9, 2026
