In Reply to: the truth is so unknowable. Who can tell?* posted by blindness on November 15, 2024 at 15:31:37
“A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of [totalitarian] mob mentality….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.”