Total loyalty requires completely isolating a person from all other social ties

Evidence

“Total loyalty—the psychological basis for domination—can be expected only from the completely isolated human being who, without any other social ties to family, friends, comrades, or even mere acquaintances, derives his sense of having a place in the world only from his belonging to a movement, his membership in the party.” — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1137

Categorization

• DEFINE: Arendt’s mechanism for total domination: isolation as the precondition of absolute loyalty.
• XREF: Resonates with cognitive isolation in surveillance capitalism (subject removed from social context) and with the reader’s existing chapters on totalitarian power. — connects to: Totalitarian loyalty requires stripping movement ideology of all concrete content — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 772; Radical socialization through exchange produces absolute solitude and alienation — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 67

Broader Connections

• Radical socialization through exchange produces absolute solitude and alienation #expands (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 67
• Totalitarian loyalty requires stripping movement ideology of all concrete content #qualifies (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 772