On Hayek's Notion that Truth In a Totalitarian State Is Not Discovered Objectively from Research, Debate, Education, and Discussion but Is Rather Dictated from the Top by Government as a Tool of Meeting its Desired Ends

Let's just say that it rings quite familiar (global warming, COVID-19, hydroxychloroquine, Iran and nukes, the threat posed by Russia, etc., etc.) and leave it there. For now.