Totalitarianism’s worst threat is its assault on objective truth, not cruelty

Evidence

In 1984, Oceania had London as its capital, and Orwell saw what was truly horrifying about totalitarianism as being not its cruelty, but rather the way in which it attacked the concept of objective truth. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1441

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the Frankfurt School’s own emphasis on the dialectic of enlightenment eroding reason; also connects to the reader’s critical theory framework around truth and ideology.