![From a jewish author, but still it's a good quote that very well illustrates what we've all been experiencing here lately both online and irl [949x960 - 1.22MB]](https://pic8.co/sh/BrVyiP.png){kind=link}
Those who do not read the news are uninformed while those who do are misinformed. - Mark Twain
>Those who do not read the news are uninformed while those who do are misinformed. - Mark Twain
For those who can't see well: "The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a deceitful government must constantly rewrite its own history. On the receiving end, you get not only one lie (a lie which you could go on believing for the rest of your days), but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that can no longer trust anything, is a people that cannot make up its mind. They are deprived, not only of their capacity to act but also of their capacity to think and to judge. With such a people, you may then do what you please." -- Hannah Arendt, 1974
For those who can't see well:
"The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a deceitful government must constantly rewrite its own history. On the receiving end, you get not only one lie (a lie which you could go on believing for the rest of your days), but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that can no longer trust anything, is a people that cannot make up its mind. They are deprived, not only of their capacity to act but also of their capacity to think and to judge. With such a people, you may then do what you please." -- Hannah Arendt, 1974
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