Totalitarian governments not only look to control the economic and political matters, but they also seek to control the attitudes, values and beliefs of their citizens, erasing their distinction between state and society.Being under a totalitarian government will be frightening for anyone because of its oppressive policies. To stay in control totalitarian governments enact political repression, political cultism, control over the whole economy, regulation and restriction of speech, mass surveillance and large amounts of government made terrorism. Since totalitarian governments have absolute control over their education system and society, they can cement their power over the whole population. The government control in Aldous Huxley’s Brave …show more content…
In Brave New World the government uses their education system to focus children on doing their jobs and to be a “normal” person in their society. They scared delta babies when they held books and flowers. They did this so that they can learn to hate both. “Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks … They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an ‘instinctive’ hatred of books and flowers”(Huxley 37). They wanted the delta’s to hate flowers so that they will not go to the fields and they cannot become distracted. The hate of books made it so that the deltas will not obtain ideas that will “decondition” …show more content…
This creates ignorance in both societies and allows the government to cement their power over the people.

As one can see, many of these totalitarian governments indoctrinate their population at an early age. Brave New World displays another example of that by the government teaching babies and children to hate. An example of this which was already stated was the delta’s hate of books and flowers. So that they won’t be “deconditioned”. Another example of this is when the government teaches children with higher statuses in their society(Alphas and Betas) to hate the lower classes because of their inferiority. This motivates them to work harder as they want to prove that they are better.

In North Korea, educational campuses try and generate hate against America, other western countries and other political systems. They generate hate amongst the younger population by making hate murals against the USA and having political classes which create hate for other political ideas and ideologies that are different from North Korea’s. In North Korea this type of education is enforced heavily against younger children in primary school; “It is only in middle school that subjects outside politics begin to take on meaning.”(Raymond K. Cunningham, Jr.). North Korea generates hate amongst the younger population before setting them up for their future occupations, this