Bibliograph

Homo Americanus, The Rise of Totalitarian Democracy in America, Zbigniew Janowski

Type

Label

Homo Americanus, The Rise of Totalitarian Democracy in America, Zbigniew Janowski

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Homo Americanus

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1225189542

Responsibility statement

Zbigniew Janowski

Sub title

The Rise of Totalitarian Democracy in America

Summary

What is the man who cannot be known apart from his socio-political environment? As Zbigniew Janowski asserts, one does not ask who this man is, for he does not even know himself. This man is suppressed and separated, and not by Fascism or Communism. In present-day America this has been accomplished by democracy. “Only someone shortsighted, or someone who values equality more than freedom, would deny that today’s citizens enjoy little or no freedom, particularly freedom of speech, and even less the ability to express openly or publicly the opinions that are not in conformity with what the majority considers acceptable at a given moment. It may sound paradoxical to contemporary ears, but a fight against totalitarianism must also mean a fight against the expansion of democracy.” Janowski all at once brazen and out of bounds states what he calls the obvious and unthinkable truth: In the United States, we are already living in a totalitarian reality. The American citizen, the Homo Americanus, is an ideological being who is no longer good or bad, reasonable or irrational, proper or improper except when measured against the objectives of the dominating egalitarian mentality that American democracy has successfully incubated. American democracy has done what other despotic regimes have likewise achieved - namely, taken hold of the individual and forced him to renounce (or forget) his greatness, pursuit of virtue and his orientation toward history and Tradition. --, Provided by publisher

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