From the Enlightenment on, modern political philosophy has been character- ized by the abandonment of a set of questions that an earlier age had deemed central: What is a well-lived life? What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of the city and humanity? How does culture and religion fit into all of this? For the modern world, the death of... See more

Chaque fois que j’entends un discours politique ou que je lis ceux qui nous dirigent, je suis effrayé depuis des années de n’entendre rien qui rende un son humain. Ce sont toujours les mêmes mots qui disent les mêmes mensonges. Et que les hommes s’en accommodent, que la colère du peuple n’ait pas encore brisé les fantoches, j’y vois la preuve que

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“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