Totalitarian rule dissolves factual reality itself

Evidence

In a totally fictitious world, failures need not be recorded, admitted, and remembered. Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 893

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Arendt’s broader claim that totalitarianism destroys the shared factual world — groundwork for representation-of-the-Other debates in Islamophobia scholarship. — connects to: Award-winning journalism can propagate totalitarian fantasy for years without correction — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 2539; Some theorists argue consensus reality has dissolved entirely — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 1117; The reality principle itself is ideological — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 39 (+1 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The idea that factuality itself depends on a nontotalitarian outside world is a dense, paradigm-shifting claim about how reality is socially sustained.