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The writers of the 2001 videogame Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, presaged the absurd intellectual environment of the world wide web: “The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate … No one is invalidated, but nobody is right. Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in ‘truth.’ And this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper.”
How Individualism Created Our Postmodern Culture
Alexander Blum
Cooks Aktivisten »löschen« jetzt aus ihrer Erhebung 66 Prozent der »neutralen Studien« heraus, diese gehen fortan nicht mehr in die Bewertung ein. Unter den verbliebenen 4014 Beiträgen finden sie plötzlich nur noch 118 Positionen, die sich explizit gegen die These des anthropogenen Klimawandels stellen. Et voilà: Die »Einigkeit von 97 Prozent aller Wissenschaftler« pro anthropogener Klimakrise wurde bewiesen.
Vom Verlust Der Freiheit
Raymond Unger
The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
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