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Mark Stoneman<p>"The post-[1968] invasion regime in Czechoslovakia spoke of 'normalization,' which nicely caught the spirit of the moment. What was, was normal."</p><p>– Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom (2018), chap. 2.</p><p> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Commonplacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commonplacing</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reading</span></a></p>
Mark Stoneman<p>– Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes!… </p><p>– Galileo: No. Unhappy the land where heroes are needed.</p><p>Bertolt Brecht, "Life of Galileo," in Collected Plays: Five, trans. John Willet (Bloomsbury, 1995), scene 13.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/commonplacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commonplacing</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Brecht" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brecht</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/heroes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heroes</span></a></p>
Mark Stoneman<p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/commonplacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commonplacing</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriotism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nationalism</span></a></p>
Mark Stoneman<p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/commonplacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commonplacing</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/RussiaIsATerroristState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussiaIsATerroristState</span></a></p>
Mark Stoneman<p>"When we take an active interest in matters of doubtful relevance at moments that are chosen by tyrants and spooks, we participate in the demolition of our own political order." </p><p>– Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny (2017), no. 14. </p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/commonplacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commonplacing</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a></p>
Mark Stoneman<p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/commonplacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commonplacing</span></a></p>
Mark Stoneman<p>"It’s not just that both Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the same way and for the same purpose—blatantly, to assert power over truth itself."</p><p>– Masha Gessen, quoted in Brooke Gladstone, The Trouble with Reality, (Workman Publishing, 2017), chap. 3.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/commonplacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commonplacing</span></a></p>
Mark Stoneman<p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> and <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/commonplacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commonplacing</span></a></p>
Mark Stoneman<p>A book that manages to historicize a century of strongman regimes in an accessible and readable way while maintaining intellectual and scholarly rigor is a helluva thing. If you haven't yet read Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (Norton, 2020), I highly recommend it. <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/commonplacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commonplacing</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/criminality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminality</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a></p>
Mark Stoneman<p>"Who would the strongman past and present be without those crowds that form the raw material of his propaganda? His secret is that he needs them far more than they need him."<br>– Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen, chap. 5. <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/commonplacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commonplacing</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a></p>
Mark Stoneman<p>"Propaganda is also a system of attention management that works through repetition." – Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen, chap. 5. <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/commonplacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commonplacing</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a></p>
Mark Stoneman<p>"At its core, propaganda is a set of communication strategies designed to sow confusion and uncertainty, discourage critical thinking, and persuade people that reality is what the leader says it is." – Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen, chap. 5. <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/commonplacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commonplacing</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a></p>
Mark Stoneman<p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Commonplacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commonplacing</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Atrocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atrocities</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/WarAndSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarAndSociety</span></a><br>Cross-post from <a href="https://markstoneman.com/2024/12/17/we-sometimes-describe.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">markstoneman.com/2024/12/17/we</span><span class="invisible">-sometimes-describe.html</span></a></p>
Mark Stoneman<p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Commonplacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commonplacing</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/RussiaUkraineWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussiaUkraineWar</span></a> <br>cross-post from <a href="https://markstoneman.com/2024/12/17/did-the-ukrainians.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">markstoneman.com/2024/12/17/di</span><span class="invisible">d-the-ukrainians.html</span></a></p>
Mark Stoneman<p>I file <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> under <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/commonplacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commonplacing</span></a> on my blog. <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a></p>
Mark Stoneman<p>". . . It was their relationship with media, with televisions, radios, books, blogs, which helped them to re-imagine themselves over and over."</p><p>Peter Pomerantsev, This is Not Propaganda (2019), part 6</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/commonplacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commonplacing</span></a></p>
Mark Stoneman<p>Peter Pomerantsev on Russian disinformation (2014) <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Commonplacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commonplacing</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/RussiaIsATerroristState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussiaIsATerroristState</span></a></p>
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