Rod Dreher: “Hannah Arendt, the great political philosopher of the 20th century, said that when a society loses the desire to know the truth, that is a precursor to totalitarianism. And I think that has happened on both the left and the right.”
Our government and media spew out information in large chunks. But large chunks of what? In a very real sense, they are no longer our government and our media, but our masters. And sheeplike, we passively accept whatever they say, even if it contradicts what they said last week, even if it is blatantly untrue. We’re no longer at the table, we’re on the menu.