05-09-2020, 01:33 PM
A 3T begins happy but goes sour. The elites become more powerful and demanding, and although the elites may pretend to support some self-righteous causes they find hedonism profitable -- for separating fools from their money.
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.