"We are rapidly becoming the prototypes of people that totalitarian monsters could only drool about in their dreams"

“All the dictators up to now have had to work hard at suppressing the truth. We, by our actions, are saying that this is no longer necessary, that we have acquired a spiritual mechanism that can denude truth of any significance. In a very fundamental way we, as a free people, have freely decided that we want to live in some post-truth world….”

Wrote Steve Tesich in “A government of lies,” published in The Nation in 1992.