Totalitarian Society

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In many real and fictionalized totalitarian societies, children live apart from their families. There can be many reasons for them doing so. It could be because they want to brainwash them and don’t want their thoughts to be skewed from the belief of their families. And it could also because they don t want them to have any special connections to any other people to replicate a feeling of equality amongst all people. It also causes them to have no sense of individuality. Also, by separating the child at birth it prevents the parent from growing any feelings such as love towards the child. By separating the children from their families at birth it sets them up in a position to be taught without questioning the way the society wants them to believe. One reason would be because they want to brainwash the children. By separating the children from their families at birth it allows them to teach them in the way that they want. By raising them from birth it will be the only thing that they know and the only thing that seems right to them. If they were raised by average people they would g...

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