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Elan Paulson
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Teaching and learning consultant with a passion for collaborative and technology-enqbked higher education 💜 (and spiders 🕷️ )
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March 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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"Mass [totalitarian] propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.” - Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
"Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. 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."
March 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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@mashagessen.bsky.social describes the rise of autocracy in the US as the fastest they’ve ever seen. Call out *power lies*

www.thisamericanlife.org/855/thats-a-...
March 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Hello
November 25, 2024 at 4:40 AM