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Teresa Prekerowa
Eugène Ionesco was a renowned Romanian-French playwright who watched many friends and acquaintances gradually “slip away into the language of fascism” during World War II. He wrote the play Rhinoceros, in which such sympathizers turn into rhinoceroses, to point out how bizarre it is for people to start rejecting evidence and believing the lies that tyrants like Trump and Hitler tell them.
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Eugène Ionesco Character Timeline in On Tyranny
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Chapter 10: Believe in truth.
...the same way about Hitler: they supported him because of faith, not reason. The playwright Eugène Ionesco even wrote a play called Rhinoceros about this problem: he pointed out how strange it...
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