>Above the state and behind the fa9ades of >ostensible

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>Above the state and behind the fa9ades of >ostensible power, in a maze of
>multiplied offices, underlying all shifts of >authority and in a chaos of inefficiency,
>lies the power nucleus of the country, the >superefficient and supercompetent
>services of the secret police.
>The only rule of which everybody in a >totalitarian state may be sure is
>that the more visible government agencies >are, the less power they carry,
>and the less is known of the existence of an >institution, the more powerful
>it will ultimately tum out to be.
>Hannah Arendt, from the origin of totalitarianism

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