In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to. -- Theodore Dalrymple [Wiki attributes this to Anthony Daniels, TD is his nom de plume]
Any relation to Charlie or Jack?
But seriously, this is exactly what all the fake news and fake narratives are about. It’s about mass deception and suppressing dissent. We live in scary times.
Note that this explains the current rioters’ and some protesters’ insistance on the use of the term “systemic racism” , collective white responsibility, total absence of personal resposibility, denial that all lives matter, and the latest thing to stage symbolic kneeling and pleas for forgiveness that are always bound to the “systemic” antiAmerican communist key word.