The final mode is misplaced faith. ...Once truth had become oracular rather than factual, evidence was irrelevant.
10 Believe in truth, from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder
...truth dies in four modes.
The final mode is misplaced faith. ...Once truth had become oracular rather than factual, evidence was irrelevant. 10 Believe in truth, from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder ...truth dies in four modes.
The next mode is magical thinking, or the open embrace of contradiction. ...Accepting untruth of this radical kind requires a blatant abandonment of reason. 10 Believe in truth, from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder ...truth dies in four modes.
The second mode is shamanistic incantation. As Klemperer noted, the fascist style depends upon "endless repetition," designed to make the fictional plausible and the criminal desirable. 10 Believe in truth from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder ...truth dies in four modes.
The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they were facts....Demeaning the world as it is begins the creation of a fictional counterworld. 10 Believe in truth, in On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. This renunciation of reality can feel natural and pleasant, but the result is your demise as an individual--and thus the collapse of any political system that depends upon individualism.
10 Believe in truth, from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder |
Categories |