Ben’s Reviews > Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry > Status Update
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'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)
— May 04, 2025 04:18AM
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Ben
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'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.
— Jul 29, 2025 05:03AM
Oof, yeah.
Ben
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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.
— Mar 06, 2025 04:14PM
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Based on the introduction, this is right up my alley!
— Mar 05, 2025 03:31PM
