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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” - p. 512

Still working my way through this. Dense read.

Dense read!

I read a lot of gastronomic history books (I’d be a food historian if I had a chance to do it all again) - this contains fine bits of writing such as: “Finding such chickens proved a challenge, though, in the age of Tyson and Perdue, massive high-volume operations whose pen-raised chickens, like San Fernando Valley porn, offered consistency and enormous breasts but little in the way of lasting satisfaction”.

While I can appreciate the incredible amount of research that was put into writing this book, unfortunately, it’s tedious to read.