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From an interview with Roger Errera in 1974, what turned out to be Hannah Arendt’s last public interview. Arendt spoke about the importance of a free press in an era of mass manipulation of truth and public lying: She said:
Hannah Arendt’s last public interview  
   
 
"The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie—a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days—but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please."
<big>'''Arendt spoke about the importance of a free press in an era of mass manipulation of truth and public lying'''</big>
 
Interview with Roger Errera in 1974
 
* https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1978/10/26/hannah-arendt-from-an-interview/
 
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FkoMm1hs1g
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''"What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule..."
 
''If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie — a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days — but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please."''
 
 
 
Hannah Arendt, a Voice from the Past, a Clarion Call Not to Ignore
 
: Democracy at Risk Explained by a Scholar -- One Who Experienced the Loss of Democracy
 
 
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:* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Hannah_Arendt.jpg


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Hannah Arendt’s last public interview

Arendt spoke about the importance of a free press in an era of mass manipulation of truth and public lying

Interview with Roger Errera in 1974

 

"What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule..."

If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie — a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days — but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please."


Hannah Arendt, a Voice from the Past, a Clarion Call Not to Ignore

Democracy at Risk Explained by a Scholar -- One Who Experienced the Loss of Democracy


Hannah Arendt.jpg


Disinformation - Online - Dangerous | Fact Checking, Facts Count | In Defense of Democracy and Freedom


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