[b]Timothy Snyder
Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.[/b]
Let’s file this one under, “somewhere between ‘well said’ and ‘blah, blah, blah’”
When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring more meaning.
After you’re chosen sides of course.
Once truth had become oracular rather than factual, evidence was irrelevant.
In other words, not counting conflicting goods. Where both sides have access to facts.
If lawyers had followed the norm of no execution without trial, if doctors had accepted the rule of no surgery without consent, if businessmen had endorsed the prohibition of slavery, if bureaucrats had refused to handle paperwork involving murder, then the Nazi regime would have been much harder pressed to carry out the atrocities by which we remember it.
If only this were actually relevant to what did in fact happen.
The history of the Holocaust is not over. Its precedent is eternal, and its lessons have not yet been learned.
Anyone care to bring this down to earth?
Like Hitler, the president used the word lies to mean statements of fact not to his liking, and presented journalism as a campaign against himself. The president was on friendlier terms with the internet, his source for erroneous information that he passed on to millions of people.
What president might that be?