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imposed truth

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Imposed truth is where authorities seek to coerce others to believe official truth rather than arriving at mutual agreement through rational discussion.

This authoritarian, required-belief philosophy towards public communication – control of "the truth", of what people are allowed to state as truth – is a (perhaps the) cornernerstone of totalitarianism.

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• 2017/02/10 [L..T] The Madness of King Donald «But all the traditional political fibbers nonetheless paid some deference to the truth – even as they were dodging it. They acknowledged a shared reality and bowed to it. They acknowledged the need for a common set of facts in order for a liberal democracy to function at all. Trump's lies are different. They are direct refutations of reality – and their propagation and repetition is about enforcing his power rather than wriggling out of a political conundrum. They are attacks on the very possibility of a reasoned discourse, the kind of bald-faced lies that authoritarians issue as a way to test loyalty and force their subjects into submission.»