Melanie- Ch 11

Q: How does one make a totalitarian system function efficiently?

A: "To make a totalitarian system function efficeiently, it is not enough that everybody should be forced to work for the same ends. It is essential that the people should come to regard them as their own ends. Although the beliefs must b e chosen for the people eand imposed upon them, they must beomce their beliefs, a generally accepted creed which makes the individuals as far as possible act spontaneoulsy in the way the planner wants. If the feeling of oppression in totalitarian countries is in general much less acute than most people in liberal countries imagine, this is because the totalitarian governments succeed to a high degree in making people think as they want them to" (Hayek, 168).