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The Will to Be Ruled: Totalitarianism and the Fantasy of Freedom
The provided texts offer an extensive overview of an essay titled "The Will to Be Ruled: Totalitarianism and the Fantasy of Freedom", authored by Bry Willis, an Independent Scholar. This work forms the seventh instalment of the Zenodo Anti-Enlightenment Project corpus, positioning itself within a critical framework against Enlightenment principles. The core argument posits that modern totalitarianism emerges as the logical conclusion of Enlightenment individualism, driven by the psychological exhaustion and isolation felt by the supposedly autonomous subject. Willis explores how the pressure…
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