12-12-2016, 03:51 PM
Lies and delusions have a nasty tendency to crater. That's why Ponzi schemes fail. That's why cults of personality around hollow people fall apart. That's why the best way in which to convict a criminal is to prove that he has lied about his claims to innocence. That is why dishonest propaganda loses its credibility and so does the propagandist. That is why people make tearful exits from religious cults and causes like neo-Nazism, Ku Kluxism, and Communism -- that they find that what they believed in has only force and deceit behind it.
We have been committed to a radical change in American life, one in which even the very liberties that we have taken for granted, can be destroyed. But who goes down with it? I am more scared of the Trump Revolution taking me down first. Should it do so -- then I can show the courage of someone who believes that death solves all his problems.
We have been committed to a radical change in American life, one in which even the very liberties that we have taken for granted, can be destroyed. But who goes down with it? I am more scared of the Trump Revolution taking me down first. Should it do so -- then I can show the courage of someone who believes that death solves all his problems.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.