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Danh ngôn của Anne Applebaum (Sứ mệnh: 4)

Sometimes the point isn't to make people believe a lie - it's to make people fear the liar.
Just shouting about 'facts' will get you nowhere with those who no longer trust the sources that produce them.
Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this strand disappeared, smothered by the widespread and bipartisan conviction that the United States needed to stay engaged with the world to prevent future crises.
Five years after the Chernobyl disaster, in the summer of 1991, the last summer the Soviet Union was still in existence, I visited Ukraine. I trekked out to the 20-mile exclusion zone - it had been cleared of all people after the accident - together with some local environmental activists.