A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of the truth.
Indeed, scientists have shown that people will go to absurd lengths - and engage in mental gymnastics – in order to cling to their belief in what those in authority have said.
Part of the reason so many are so vulnerable to naive belief in authority is that we evolved in small tribes … and we assume that the super-elites are just like us.
In reality, there are millions of psychopaths in the world … and they are largely running D.C. and on Wall Street.
These people have no hesitation in lying to promote their goals.
The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs told Morley Safer of 60 Minutes and CBS News:
Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you’re stupid. Did you hear that? — stupid.
And studies show that the super-rich lie, cheat and steal more than the rest of us.
Who’s to Blame … Big Government or Big Business?
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I recently read Issacson's Einstein
ReplyDeleteAlbert was a pacifist until Hitler started breaking glass and people started disappearing in Germany. He changed his tune pretty quickly.
What about the propaganda organized religion are guilty of?
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ReplyDeleteEinstein had a high regard for both the Christian and Jewish faiths he was educated in a Protestant setting and born a Jew
-perhaps there is more to this existence than what is revealed on MSNBC--
propaganda? the Pulpit is not a place where the pretentious Progressives can stick their collective nose into via the Constitution..
that they generally have no respect for and use Corrupt Federal Judges to usurp it's importance