doesn’t matter that’s
lying – people want the lie …
that’s the crucial point
In the article, How did Hitler’s film-maker hide her complicity from the world? by Eliza Apperly about a new documentary delves into controversial German film-maker Leni Riefenstahl’s private archive to uncover a director who spent a lifetime covering up her central role in the Nazi propaganda machine. Ms. Apperly closes her article with this paragraph.
Ultimately, however, Riefenstahl impresses most in attesting to the seductiveness of evasion. Veiel hopes that the film will above all foster a deeper understanding of “the structure and necessity of legends” and the breeding ground of untruths. Even when the gaps and inconsistencies in her storytelling seem flagrant, she still finds her advocates and supporters. “It doesn’t matter that she is obviously lying,” Veiel says. “People want the lie. That’s the crucial point.”
Read that last line again out loud.
“It doesn’t matter that she is obviously lying,” Veiel says. “People want the lie. That’s the crucial point.”
Not sure what to say about Ms. Riefenstahl as my jury has always been out on her anyway (I am reminded of the story of told when Fran Lebowitz one time was invited to a very small, intimate dinner party for Leni Riefenstahl and she replied, “Are you out of your mind?”, but for a comment for today.
For an answer to the question, How does HE get away with it?
It doesn’t matter that he is obviously lying.
People want the lie.
That’s the crucial point.
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