Albert Camus. Always. https://t.co/4p1FZl6Dz6
“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... See more
In the midst of so much philosophy, humanity, and polite-ness, and so many sublime maxims, we have nothing to show for ourselves but a deceitful and frivolous exterior, honour without virtue, reason without wisdom, and pleasure without happiness.
Rousseau
In Leviathan , Thomas Hobbes names four “abuses” of speech, the second of which is “when [men] use words metaphorically; that is, in other sense than that they are ordained for; and thereby deceive others.”
On first encounter I found Hobbes’s whole argument sort of obviously silly. The problem is, unfortunately, I also think he might be kind of... See more
On first encounter I found Hobbes’s whole argument sort of obviously silly. The problem is, unfortunately, I also think he might be kind of... See more