" The ideal subjects of totalitarian regimes are not Nazis or Communists who are convinced, but people who have a difference between fact and fiction ( i.e. experiential reality) and the difference between right and wrong ( i.e. ) exists......"
[ Why?] In an incomprehensible world that is constantly changing, the masses have reached a point where they believe everything and nothing, they believe that everything is possible and nothing is true. ... Mass propaganda finds that its audience always ready to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and not overly deceived, still believing every false statement.Totalitarian mass leaders base their propaganda on the psychologically correct assumption that under such conditions people can someday be made to believe claims the most fantastic and that if they were presented with irrefutable evidence of their lie the next day they would believe it would flee in cynicism; instead of abandoning the leader who lied to them, they would protest that they always knew the statement was a lie. and admire leaders for their superior tactical intelligence.
~ Hannah Arendt, from her book The Origins of Totalitarianism.
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