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Changing the interpretation of the past is critical to controlling the future.
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People who assure you that you can only gain security at the price of liberty usually want to deny you both.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Hannah Arendt powerfully explained “the constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people who can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and w... See more
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Center — Solzhenitsyn Live Not by Lies
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"Various groups distort and weaponize the term 'Zionism,' depicting it as a malignant form of tribalism or even racism," @yuval_noah_harari writes in @PostOpinions.
"We cannot do justice here to the many strains that existed within Zionism over the past 150 years, and to the impact that events such as the Holocaust and ... See more
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The way to destroy all rules, he explained, was to focus on the idea of the exception. A Nazi leader outmaneuvers his opponents by manufacturing a general conviction that the present moment is exceptional, and then transforming that state of exception into a permanent emergency. Citizens then trade real freedom for fake safety.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
