• Scotty@scribe.disroot.org
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    2 days ago

    I got it, you can just also take China as an example. The story is more or less the same: Critical thinking is only allowed if it doesn’t contradicts the state narrative, belief in the leader’s thought first and foremost, historical knowledge is poor due to censorship (younger people have never heard about the Tiananmen Square massacre, for example, and barely know about genocides such as in Xiniang), state propaganda is prevalent, and it is easy for the Party to implement a totalitarian agenda.

    So it’s basically the same thing.