The big lies
Joseph Göbbels (Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany) had a famous strategy: "a lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth"! The philosopher Hannah Arendt explained it: the "Big Lie" wasn't just to make people believe a specific falsehood, but to make them lose their sense of reality entirely. "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 and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
