Our system is ... the dictatorship of a political bureaucracy over a society which has undergone economic and social levelling.

each country has been completely penetrated by a network of manipulatory instruments controlled by the superpower centre and totally subordinated to its interests.

it commands ... extremely flexible ideology that, in its elaborateness and completeness, is almost a secularized religion.
It offers a ready answer to any question whatsoever; it can scarcely be accepted only in part, and accepting it has profound implications for human life.

The principle involved here is that the centre of power is identical with the centre of truth.

Ideology, in creating a bridge of excuses between the system and the individual, spans the abyss between the aims of the system and the aims of life.
It pretends that the requirements of the system derive from the requirements of life. It is a world of appearances trying to pass for reality.

nothing to prevent ideology from becoming more and more removed from reality...: a world of appearances, a mere ritual, a formalized language deprived of semantic contact with reality and transformed into a system of ritual signs that replace reality with pseudo-reality.