Is this the dream we live in?

1. A daydream appropriate to a totalitarian age (from leninology.blogspot.com)

Of James Hadley Chase's novel 'No Orchids for Miss Blandish', Orwell wrote:
“It is a daydream appropriate to a totalitarian age. In his imagined world of gangsters Chase is presenting, as it were, a distilled version of the modern political scene, in which such things as mass bombing of civilians, the use of hostages, torture to obtain confessions, secret prisons, execution without trial, floggings with rubber truncheons, drownings in cesspools, systematic falsification of records and statistics, treachery, bribery, and quislingism are normal and morally neutral, even admirable when they are done in a large and bold way.”