“…inhabitants of a world whose assumptions are false, and self-descriptions fraudulent.”

Here’s a piece worth sharing on the subject of politics and truth (we might also through journalism in there too for good measure)….First of all, John Kay on Vaclav Havel: Havel emphasised the mechanical nature of the process of effusion. “Part of the essence of the post-totalitarian system,” he said, “is that it draws everyone into its sphere of power, not so they may realise themselves as human beings, but so they may surrender their human identity in favour of …

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