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George Orwell in his book “1984” grasped an essential point about totalitarian propaganda: The more outrageously false it was, the better it served its purpose, which wasn’t to inform or persuade, but to humiliate and subdue.
Monomaniacal Pressure Groups Slice Away at Our Freedom
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A view from the courtyard facing The Royal Academy of Arts at The Royal Academy in London on Sept. 28, 2020. Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images
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