I'm looking around #TomDispatch for #TomEngelhardt's on #Rumsfeld's admission that reality wasn't an issue in the #IraqInvasion. Maybe it was #Petraeus that was confident they could create the desired #FactsOnTheGround . Either #HannahArendt or #SimoneWeil writes of the totalitarian's constant stream of facts and how contradictions don't matter just keep giving followers something to get excited about.
https://tomdispatch.com/whose-future-is-this-anyway/
#FictionBasedReality
#BetweenPastAndFuture #Arendt
Whose Future Is This Anyway?

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