THE IDEAL SUBJECT OF AUTHORITARIANISM

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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule are people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”

---Hannah Arendt---

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