Totalitarianisms are not political ideologies, but collusions of psychopaths who aim at a power only achieved through the massive destruction of conscience. That is why they target, above all and with the utmost violence, human dignity, that through which it manifests itself and that which it feeds on. So they only pass in a corrupted society whose individuals have completely abdicated their own worth. Dignity will never hesitate between totalitarianism and jail, between that and the firing squad. However, it should be noted that, except in rare cases, it is not allowed to choose between these options. Dignity most often vanishes as totalitarianism advances, and this, cunning that it is, does so gradually, through small spoils, small abuses, in such a way as not to make it appear that it is slowly imposing itself. One step at a time and, with each success, a new step forward. So, in truth, this is a war waged by the individual in small battles, small choices, whose only result that really matters to him—the one over which he has control—is to corrupt himself or not.