I'm agnostic, but ...

"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

For a more modern take, paraphrasing Hannah Arendt.

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”

We live in a an age where for many media is reality, uncritical, unchecked. Press releases are about creating reality, not reporting it, they are about psychological manipulation, not information.

> As we've seen at a national scale: if you just lie lie lie enough it starts being treated like the truth.

This actually happened in reverse with the spread of social media dynamics to politics and major media. Twitter made Trump president, not the other way around.

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