Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@scott_m_coley 1/ "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." - #HannahArendt

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Quoted by@serbiaireland Hence the maniacal promise and bastard appeal of the Political Deliverer deriving precisely from their function as public icons of denial and, Koestler grimly observes, who stand for "the holocausts resulting from self-transcending devotion to collectively shared belief systems."