War As Spiritual Death
by MixMasterE

In war, truth is the first casualty. ~Aeschylus

The rhetoric of conquerors can be like a cool, soothing balm or fiery bromide inciting any given population to blindly support & acquiesce to the powers that be (the military-industrial-media triumvirate). This intent to deceive and furtively sabotage democratic principles is as old as empire itself, but in any given population, there is always a small minority that can recognize bullshit when they see (or smell) it. One of those people is Norman Solomon who produced the following documentary, "War Made Easy" which details a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin/hypnosis that has dragged the citizens of the United States along from one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq.

It's amazing how people can accustom themselves to chains, but I guess if you feed them junk long enough, they get used to it and feel it's God's or Nature's Law that makes things the way they are. Hitler once said, "All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach". How true.


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