03-14-2017, 11:22 PM
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Re: Southeast Asian rulers and bad taste: clutter is tacky no matter how expensive.
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And I repeat myself.
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.