Thinking about how authoritarianism and totalitarianism create something that may be called "totalitarian time": a sphere marked by timelessness, a limbo that is at the same time created by terror as it maintans and upholds terror.

The concept of circular time that is at the heart of religious worlds, e.g., the sacral year in Christianity that by (re-)enacting central events of the bible at specific times of the year (re-)create and thus keep maintaining a sacral oikos in the first place, one that lifts the world into a realm of out-of-timeness and infuses the natural world with meaning – it seems to me to that totalitartian societies have some parallels.

"Totailtarian time" as a man-made salvation, not just determining man but at the same time forming world, creating human destinity and confirming the world's purpose. Eliade and Arendt combined, so to speak. With a dose of mass psychology and the provision of meaning that too is a hallmark of violence.

Could be a spin-off of my old dissertation project in epistemology.

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