Think, for example, of the indignation of certain politicians at the use by critical minds of the words “dictatorship” or “tyranny” for health…

However, the dictatorship is indeed since ancient Rome this (normally temporary) suspension of the usual rights and freedoms. A state of emergency or exception that bypasses the usual processes of democracy and the rule of law is technically a regime of dictatorship.

And piloting the so-called response to a phenomenon (misrepresented as previous presentations have shown) from a military "Defence Council", protected by a secret that has no valid reason to exist, is indeed of tyranny. Here again in the precise sense of the term, which describes the capture of executive power by a person or a small group, putting the normal institutional functioning in check.

All these realities -already quite problematic-, required the knowledge and expertise of a person like Ariane Bilheran to enlighten us about them.

Normalian, philosopher (with a specialization in political and moral philosophy), Ariane is also a doctor in psychopathology. His research themes in this discipline have covered (among others) the psychopathology of authority and paranoia as well as the phenomena of manipulation and influence, on both a small and large scale.

That is to say, before what happened to us, she had all the keys to reading and understanding necessary to carry out a precise and relevant analysis.

She did so by publishing several series of articles (including Chronicles of Totalitarianism and Psychopathology of Totalitarianism) and various landmark books (including of course Le Débat Interdit, written in tandem with Vincent Pavan) as well as giving numerous interviews and conferences.

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