DON'T BELIEVE WHAT YOU SEE;
DON'T BELIEVE WHAT YOU HEAR.
I AM GOD.
OBEY ONLY ME !
"What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening."
This is almost a little too on-the-nose Orwellian. In 1984, George Orwell described the totalitarian government's ultimate demand of its subjects:
It has long been clear that the president is attempting to build a genuine authoritarian movement over which only his word has any power, and which he can use to ride roughshod over the institutions of democracy. So far, this attempt has been an unmitigated success, as his supporters inhabit the same infotainment vortex he does and other members of the Republican Party - which controls both Houses of Congress and has a constitutional duty to provide a check on the Executive Branch -bow to him out of craven fealty.
Lies that are not merely lies, but instead serve to destroy the very concept of truth, are a cornerstone of any authoritarian playbook. As the journalist Masha Gessen wrote while comparing Trump and Vladimir Putin's styles of lying in The New York Review of Books:
Lying is the message. It's not just that both Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the same way and for the same purpose: blatantly, to assert power over truth itself.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a22547037/donald-trump-orwellian-truth-reality-eyes-ears/
It has long been clear that the president is attempting to build a genuine authoritarian movement over which only his word has any power, and which he can use to ride roughshod over the institutions of democracy. So far, this attempt has been an unmitigated success, as his supporters inhabit the same infotainment vortex he does and other members of the Republican Party - which controls both Houses of Congress and has a constitutional duty to provide a check on the Executive Branch -bow to him out of craven fealty.
Lies that are not merely lies, but instead serve to destroy the very concept of truth, are a cornerstone of any authoritarian playbook. As the journalist Masha Gessen wrote while comparing Trump and Vladimir Putin's styles of lying in The New York Review of Books:
Lying is the message. It's not just that both Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the same way and for the same purpose: blatantly, to assert power over truth itself.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a22547037/donald-trump-orwellian-truth-reality-eyes-ears/
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