Sheldon Woldon at Princeton has been writing about similar ideas for some time, although he makes more of an economic argument: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In

Sheldon Woldon at Princeton has been writing about similar ideas for some time, although he makes more of an economic argument: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism