The Danger of Exhausting One’s Self Trying to Determine What is True

“The ideal subject of totalitarianism… is people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”

— Hannah Arendt

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When we exhaust ourselves trying to figure out what is true, we become easy to manipulate. This is why I spent so much time focusing on censorship and propaganda, especially the propaganda pumped out by corporate news outlets.

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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