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(Hannah Arendt)
LinkedIn interpretation/translation from Hannah Arendt's 'On Lying'
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Protecting Democracy -- Freedom and Rights
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Political lies as a threat to democracy... when a politics of lying are 'normalized' amid a maelstrom of 'gaslighting'... where facts and fact checking are overwhelmed by the volume and velocity of dis/misinfo
“The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world – and the category of truth vs falsehood is among the mental means to this end – is being destroyed.”
-- Hannah Arendt, "Truth and Politics", 1967
Hannah Arendt’s definitive work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, is an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history. Itbegins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. This edition includes an introduction by Anne Applebaum – a leading voice on authoritarianism and Russian history – who fears that “once again, we are living in a world that Arendt would recognize.”
More on politics of lies and consequences
Crises of the Republic
Lying in Politics Civil Disobedience on Violence Thoughts on Politics and Revolution
By Hannah Arendt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Copyright © 1972
CHAPTER 1
(Fair use excerpt, visit the Publisher/Distributor for the book, Crisis of the Republic)
THE PENTAGON PAPERS — as the forty-seven-volume "History of U.S. Decision-Making Process on Vietnam Policy" (commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in June 1967 and completed a year and a half later) has become known ever since the New York Times published, in June 1971, this top-secret, richly documented record of the American role in Indochina from World War II to May 1968 — tell different stories, teach different lessons to different readers. Some claim they have only now understood that Vietnam was the "logical" outcome of the Cold War or the anti-Communist ideology, others that this is a unique opportunity to learn about decision-making processes in government, but most readers have by now agreed that the basic issue raised by the papers is deception. At any rate, it is quite obvious that this issue was uppermost in the minds of those who compiled The Pentagon Papers for the New York Times, and it is at least probable that this was also an issue for the team of writers who prepared the forty-seven volumes of the original study. The famous credibility gap, which has been with us for six long years, has suddenly opened up into an abyss. The quicksand of lying statements of all sorts, deceptions as well as self-deceptions, is apt to engulf any reader who wishes to probe this material, which, unhappily, he must recognize as the infrastructure of nearly a decade of United States foreign and domestic policy.
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