"Factual truth is distinct from ideology or bias or personal opinions of any kind. Rather, for example, the factual truth is that my name is Robert Jay Lifton, I am a research psychiatrist who studies the psychological roots of war and political violence..."
"When factual truth breaks down—with a denial, say, of the outcome of a legitimate election—there can be a rush of factual falsehoods inundating a whole society... the defense of continuous falsehoods relies on more than repetition; it relies on intimidation and can readily lead to violence."
"What results from this situation is malignant normality, society's routinization of falsehood and destructive behavior. That can produce psychic numbing, the inability or disclination to feel, which can reach the point of immobilization."
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