The Mechanical Reproduction of Totalitarian Truths in the Imperium of Mankind: A Zizekian Reading of the Imperial Creed and Its Application
The Imperium of Mankind perpetuates itself through the mechanical reproduction of a vast number of social fantasies, the most universal being belief in the omniscience of the God-Emperor. To be an Imperial subject, one must, often under pain of death, publicly profess an obvious falsehood: that humanity is led by an all-powerful protector, whose will …