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 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
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