Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘Inverted totalitarianism works to depoliticize its citizenry, promote a sense of weakness and collective futility that erodes faith in democratic institutions and promotes political apathy and privatization of the self…

All this further guarantees the dominance of powerful corporate interests and private power.  Sowing popular distrust of government, corporations depict themselves as the residuary place of democracy. Blurring the line between economy and polity makes it easier to assimilate and reduce political choices to consumer choices, political behavior to economic behavior.’ (Politics and Vision)