i never fully read this text until just now but ... this statement, attributed to Joseph Goebbels: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” literally says, in the punchline, that truth is the greatest enemy of the State...

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Scoundrel 6 months ago
...That's circular reasoning. The state is on the side of maintaining lies; the truth is the mortal enemy of lies; the truth is the greatest enemy of the state; the state is on the side of maintaining lies. I don't love the state, but I have actual reasons for not liking the state besides that I just don't like them.