Earlier Today, I Heard A Trump Supporter Say: "You Don't Know What To Believe." Once Trump Gets You To Throw Up Your Hands, You Won't Be Able To Determine What's True. Instead, You'll Be More Willing To Accept Lies As Truth. This Is Why Trump Lies So Much And Says "Who Knows? We'll See" So Often. Hannah Arendt Has The Details

The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie — a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days — but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.

• On the subject freedom of press. Source: Interview with French writer Roger Errera, 1974. New York Review of Books. As quoted by Scroll Staff (December 04, 2017): Ideas in literature: Ten things Hannah Arendt said that are eerily relevant in today’s political times. In: Scroll.in. Archived from the original on October 1, 2019.

Hannah Arendt

Wikiquote

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt

 Compendium Of Best Hannah Arendt Posts

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/compendium-of-best-hannah-arendt-posts.html

Carl Sagan Details The Big Bamboozle (With A Little Help From His Friends)

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/carl-sagan-details-big-bamboozle-with.html

Lincoln's Observation On America's Suicide

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/lincolns-observation-on-americas-suicide.html

Lincoln: Truth Is Everything

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/lincoln-truth-is-everything.html

"The Decisive Distinction Between People Who Can Think And Those Who Can't"

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-decisive-distinction-between-people.html

The Death Of Epistemology: Update

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-death-of-epistemology-update.html 

The New (Ab)Normal: Flood Every Media Platform With A Fire Hose Of Falsehood... And The Need For A New Journalistic Method
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-new-abnormal-flood-every-media.html

Journalists Should Be In "Emergency" Mode: Journalistic Method Needs To Be Redefined To Deal With Trump's Re-Definition Of Bullshit As Normalcy 

"On The Media"
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/journalists-should-be-emergency-mode-on-the-media 

SUPERB INTERVIEW With Boston College History Professor, Heather Cox Richardson: Bill Moyers Discusses What Trump Will Do Next As Biden's Victory Drives Him "Barking Man"

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/superb-interview-with-boston-college.html

Alan: During my 1950s' childhood, any weirdo-relative living in an in-law apartment would have become a candidate for "insane asylum committal" as soon as s/he started spewing the kind of lunatic ideation that consumes Trump Cult, a coven of crazies who subscribe to QAnon, a new secular religion with its own messiah (i.e., Donald Trump) and its own resurrection (i.e., John Kennedy Jr. is not dead). 

And that's just the beginning.

Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton are members of a vast Hollywood (and Democratic Party) cabal who operate a massive sex slave trade that also kills children to cannibalize them in Satanic blood rituals.

If you've got the stomach, you can learn more about this epochal normalization-of-insanity at: 

 

"QAnon Anon"

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/09/qanon-anon.html

"Whom The Gods Would Destroy, They First Make Mad"

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/11/whom-gods-would-destroy-they-first-make.html