“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth”
Garry Kasparov (2015)
That is to say, don’t let them shut you up.
There is a longer, more historical version of this but it escapes me at the moment.
I can only find the Hannah Arendt quote (1974)
“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And [to] such a people… you can do whatever you want.”
But i swear there was one that finished
“When the truth is silent, liars can move onto action”
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That is to say, don’t let them shut you up.
There is a longer, more historical version of this but it escapes me at the moment.
I can only find the Hannah Arendt quote (1974)
But i swear there was one that finished “When the truth is silent, liars can move onto action”