The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

by Michiko Kakutani

“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.”

I believe in being truthful, not neutral. And I believe we must stop banalizing the truth.

More and more, your computer monitor is a kind of one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.”

Hitler possessed an instinctive sense of how to capture public attention from the start. “Who cares whether they laugh at us or insult us, treating us as fools or criminals?” he wrote about his early efforts to make a name for himself. “The point is that they talk about us and constantly think about us.”

“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”

Surkov’s Russia, just what Pomerantsev called “power for power’s sake and the accumulation of vast wealth.” In the service

sounds like the GOP