Alexandre Koyre on the political function of the lie in 1945 https://nasepblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/koyre-the-political-function-of-the-modern-lie-1945.pdf">https://nasepblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/k... Lying can be for fun

Totalitarians deny that there is a single truth. This seems to be what @michikokakutani is critiquing.

Totalitarian movements however have a secret core that is aware of the lies that the leaders tell to entrap their followers.

The leadership is contemptuous of the followers who believe the lies they are told