When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascistsβ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.
@molly0xfff It fucking matters indeed. Thank you for the reminder! π
I immediately thought of this sentence in Orwell's A Clergyman's Daughter: "Yes, it was discouraging work; so discouraging that at times it would have seemed altogether futile if she had not known the sense of futility for what it is--the subtlest weapon of the Devil."