I am working on a text that focuses on Hannah Arendt’s Lessing Prize speech from 1959 that she entitled “On humanity in dark times” (Menschlichkeit in finsteren Zeiten). I am thinking of her a lot and am sure she would be truly devastated and shocked if she were alive today.
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Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.
-- Hannah Arendt

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