07-06-2022, 05:33 PM
It didn't help in my case that I had heard of someone doing the all-too-American act of a violent shooting at a Fourth of July parade with multiple deaths in a Chicago suburb only about 180 miles away from me. Even a patriotic and usually apolitical event was not safe.
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.