"Beloved Chairman Mao, we are loyal to you forever.

" 1967

Propaganda
 Propaganda
A systematic effort to manipulate other people's beliefs, attitudes, or
actions by means of deliberately selected symbols, facts, and
arguments. May omit or distort facts or simply lie.
 Hannah Arendt on
Propaganda
In her famous work The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt examined the
preconditions that gave rise to Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia.

Arendt concluded that propaganda thrived by eroding the distinctions

between fact and fiction:

In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses

had reached the point where they would, at the same time,
believe everything and nothing, think that everything was
possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda
discovered that its audience was ready at all times to
believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not
particularly object to being deceived because it held every
statement to be a lie anyhow."
 Hannah Arendt on Propaganda
Propaganda relies on people's unconscious desire for order:

"What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the
consistency of the system of which they are presumably part"