George Pyle: When being open-minded becomes a weakness

“If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. ... And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.”-- Hannah Arendt, interview in The New York Review of Books, October 26, 1978This is what we are approaching, an era in wh