09-21-2018, 01:49 PM
(09-21-2018, 03:58 AM)Galen Wrote:(09-16-2018, 10:54 PM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote: Facebook may be powerful, but my use of it seems impotent. People do not change their minds as a result of what I write, any more than they do here, or anywhere else before. I don't notice much mind-shifting going on these days among anyone else either.
So what difference does it make how fast or how far we can communicate, if we can't communicate?
Did it ever occur to you that people who read your writings consider you to be full of (vile word redacted)?
Consider yourself reported.
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.