Status Updates From Losing Reality: On Cults, C...

'We are experiencing what can be called "reality fatigue." The drumbeat of falsehoods and lies continues even as we expose them as such: we are thrust into a realm in which a major segment of our society ignores or defies the principles of reason, evidence, and shared knowledge [...]'

Oof, yeah.

'Totalist language, then, is repetitiously centered on all-encompassing jargon, prematurely abstract, highly categorized, relentlessly judging, and to anyone but its most devoted advocate, deadly dull: in Lionel Trilling's phrase, "the language of non-thought."' (p.81)

But technically I did already read most of the chapter I'm about to start - I skipped ahead because I was particularly interested in it. But I'll re-read it properly.

Based on the introduction, this is right up my alley!