James Lindsay published an article on Christmas Day, Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism. Read the whole thing. Twice. Maybe three times. Read it online so that you can highlight, right-click, and look up references with which you are unfamiliar. It's what's happening.
Many of the greatest horrors of the history of humanity owe their occurrence solely to the establishment and social enforcement of a false reality. With gratitude to the Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper and his important 1970 essay “Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power” for the term and idea, we can refer to these alternative realities as ideological pseudo-realities.
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