How To Break the Cycle of Delusions and Crimes | Mark Taliano
People are disinclined to believe monstrous crimes, especially since
monstrous crimes are usually camouflaged by Big Lies. Hitler knew about
the value of the Big Lie, and he wrote about it in Mein Kampf.
Stalin
too was aware of the power of monstrous crimes. He is said to have
observed that "when one man dies it is tragedy, when thousands die it's
statistics."
People are even less inclined to believe that their
own country perpetuates these crimes. On a subterranean level, people
associate the search for truth as being somehow unpatriotic, even as it
means a struggle for freedom from the totalitarian shackles of
undemocratic governance that advances secret agendas through its
manipulation of the masses.
Silence in the face of the lies of totalitarianism is a form of complicity.
Humanity's
inclination to accept monstrous crimes and the lies that camouflage
them means that the crimes are perpetuated, time and again, throughout
history. Those responsible for engineering the crimes are aware of
this.
We now know, for example, that the Bush and his aides lied
935 times in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq, and that they provided
false evidence as a pretext for the invasion. Despite the fact that
about one million people have already died as a result of this massive
criminal enterprise, the public somehow remains delusional and ready to
accept the next big crime and the next batch of lies.
