It is New Year’s Day, 2007. A very appropriate time to launch a new blog. So may this, my first post, intrigue you and be an open invitation to honest thought and the ongoing exchange of opinion.
At this early and vulnerable juncture I’d like briefly to introduce you to my point of view which, in reality, will be an ongoing endeavor for as long as the medium is available. You likely noted when you came to my site that the subtitle is “An Extended Discourse on Deception.” That’s the key to my blog and my invitation for you to read and opine, in the word of a current actor. As for its being “extended,” that is for as long as WordPress chooses to give it air to breathe.
“Deception”: misleading with forethought and disregard for truth–or, even worse, misleading by rote, with no thought, and a total absence of regard for truth of any sort.
An example, if it’s really needed? How about a wirey little rat-faced weasel named Joe Goebbels, who whored himself out to the Nazi regime as Minister of Propaganda. The only thing honest about that whole situation was that the Nazis at least called it the Ministry of Propaganda.
In every exercise of propaganda there is truth involved to one degree or another. Those tidbits are what make the rest of the trash seem believable. But it is the propagandist himself who is frequently most aware of the truth, for typically only the aware can twist the truth with grand finesse. And Joseph Goebbels proved the veracity of this thought when he gave us this following, and most frequently misquoted, piece of historical leakage:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Think about that for a bit. Think of what the ACLU, People for the American Way, George Soros, Planned Parenthood, and the hundreds if not thousands of others we’ll visit about in the future would have you believe about your own country, your own freedoms, and your own Constitution and the rights it outlines.
We’ll visit soon as this journey continues.
