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| 05684d7 | The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist. | nazism post-factual totalitarianism | Hannah Arendt | |
| 56bf74f | Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it. | adolf-hitler big-lie donald-trump fascism post-factual post-truth propaganda reality-control totalitarianism | Hannah Arendt |