A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only sup… - Robert Payne

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A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

Robert Payne

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Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (4 December 1911 – 3 March 1983) was a novelist, historian, poet, and biographer. Born in Cornwall, the son of an English naval architect, and with a French mother. Payne had more than 110 books published, novels, histories and biographies.

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The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.

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