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“Mass #propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in #cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.” ― Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" #quotes #mediaStudies #commOdon #truth #agnotology #history

Germany’s main parties each have a state-funded political foundation. Boasting thousands of employees, they have enforced a collective silence on the genocide in Gaza out of obedience to German foreign policy Ali Nobil Ahmad: https://jacobin.com/2024/11/germany-stiftungen-genocide-gaza-censorship #publicDebate #supremacy #supremacism #Netanyahu #Germany #totalitarianism #media #agnotology #beliefs #believe #Baerbock #collaboration #censorship #conflation #longRead #confusion #antisemitism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #crackdown #freeSpeech #nationalism #StandWithIsrael #racism #immigration #EuropeIsrael #IHRA #parties #democracy #FDP #SPD #CDU #DieGrünen #GreenParty #Bundestag #DEPol #GermanPolitics

"Where everybody lies about everything of importance, the truthteller, whether he knows it or not, has begun to act; he, too, has engaged himself in political business, for, in the unlikely event that he survives, he has made a start toward changing the world.” Hannah Arendt, in "Truth and Politics" #truth #Arendt #quotes #postFactual #reality #totalitarianism #HannahArendt #agnotology #MAHA #fragility #beliefs