01-02-2021, 12:18 PM
We shall see soon enough whether media will relay the stream-of-consciousness drivel of Donald Trump or ignore it. I hope to see politics go back to bland and boring. If so, then it is too bad if you wee politics as entertainment. Subscribe to a more expensive tier of cable TV or buy your own ticket to concerts, sporting events, live theater, or the cinema when the time arises. Or expand your mind at a museum.
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.