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“Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, Sapiens have thus been living in a dual reality. On the one hand, the objective reality of rivers, trees and lions; and on the other hand, the imagined reality of gods, nations and corporations. As time went by, the imagined reality became ever more powerful, so that today the very survival of rivers, trees and lions depends on the grace of imagined entities such as the United States and Google.”
― Yuval Noah Harari

“Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“We are nearly complete in our evolution from Lewis and Clark into Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam.”
― Thomas L. Friedman, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back