Soft and Inverted Totalitarianism Domina Petric, MD ABSTRACT Soft totalitarianism is as a term well described by Rod Dreher. It is a type of totalitarianism based on the cancel culture. Victim is culturally blocked from having a prominent public platform or career, and is canceled out from public, social and professional life. Inverted totalitarianism is a term coined by Sheldon Wolin that describes a type of totalitarianism that is based on domination of corporations through lobbying, political contributions and the revolving door, with the government acting as the servant of large corporations. SOFT TOTALITARIANISM Soft totalitarianism is a term well described by Rod Dreher. It is a type of totalitarianism based on the cancel culture. This type of regime is not going to have gulags, or interrogations at the Lubyanka. The rulling elite will just cancel you, and you will not work again. They will teach your children to hate, and to hate themselves 1 . Cancel culture is a desire to cancel out a person or community from social media platforms. It is characterized by the response of an evil individual when they are shown to be wrong. Narcissist make up the majority of the people who engage in cancel culture, and others who do this would include immature individuals 2 . This definition of cancel culture can be expanded on the canceling out a person or community not only from social media platforms, but from public, social and professional life. A person is culturally blocked from having a prominent public platform or career 3 . In soft totalitarianism political and economic elite use their power, influence and money to cancel whoever they want from public, social and professional life. Victim of soft totalitarianism can become socially isolated, blocked from having a career or even private life because social isolation affects private life as well. 1