01-27-2021, 11:15 PM
I was thinking of Josef Stalin, except with no more remarkable magic than a bullet to the back of the head of the 'very bad man' that he wanted to disappear into the cornfield. Maybe so was Rod Serling.
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.