Taylor reviewed On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
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5 stars
A Yale history professor’s guide to emerging fascism. This is a short and important read.
The lessons are concise with historical parallels to the present. The advice throughout is non-partisan and bears repeating—stop spreading misinformation, meet with others in person, travel, read books, do your own research, etc.
The 10th lesson on how truth dies in four modes is worth the read alone.
- It begins with an open hostility to verifiable reality.
- The second mode is shamanistic incantation (everyone’s name gets an adjective, slogans, etc).
- The third is an open embrace of contradiction.
- The final mode is misplaced faith, where "once truth becomes oracular rather than factual, evidence is irrelevant.”