Provocative thoughts

[Vexari]

The moment we no longer have a free press

anything can happen

What makes it possible

for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule

is that people are not informed

how can you have an opinion

if you are not informed?

If everybody always lies to you

the consequence is not that you believe the lies

but rather that nobody believes anything any longer

This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed

and a lying government

has to constantly rewrite its own history

On the receiving end

you get not only one lie

a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days

but you get a great number of lies

depending on how the political wind blows

And a people that no longer can believe anything

cannot make up its mind

It is deprived

not only of its capacity to act

but also

of its capacity to think and to judge

And with such a people

you can then do

what you please..


~ Hannah Arendt ~ (1906-1975)

German-American political theorist, escaped Nazi Germany

Source.. 'Hannah Arendt: From an Interview' Comments made in 1974 during an interview with the French writer Roger Errera

and published in October 26, 1978 issue of The New York Review of Books Interview.


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