Propaganda, Ponzi Schemes and Pontification: The Government at Work

"Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations and ages it is the rule" - Nietzsche

This is the third time I have headed my post with that Nietzsche quote. This time, however, instead of using it to reinforce my position, I am going to juxtapose it against its uglier creature cousin that was created out of Obama's left leaning witches crew. The brew runs in the following way: "Financial health and virtue is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations and ages it is the rule."

Does this describe them?

Excerped from translators notes for:

The people interviewed in this book, all of them in their seventies and eighties, speak a peculiar dialect of their own.

It is an idiom naturally determined by their age, their work, and their ideology; a way of speaking which combines the language of communist propaganda with stilted, archaic expressions and old-fashioned slang.

The fact that most of them lack any kind of formal education heightens the general effect. Their sentences are clumsy, their grasp of grammar tenuous; they misuse words, and see language not as a way of conveying their meaning but as an instrument for distorting and concealing truth.

Years of mendacity and propaganda have made them adept at begging questions, skirting issues, and speaking in hints and allusions; when they feel cornered, they automatically lapse into textbook communist jargon, constructing phrases of such a level of abstraction that they become unintelligible; their words simply fail to refer, and the result is gibberish.

This happens when the speaker has no meaning at all to convey but wishes to pretend that he does; when he is unwilling to answer a question and, equally unwilling to say so, tries to appear to be providing information while providing none.

Sometimes, inured by years of speaking in this way he genuinely thinks he can see meaning where no meaning exists, and really believes that he is saying something - indeed, that he is saying something true.

This kind of propaganda will teach the sheeple that evil, greed and corruption mostly come in individual packages. At the same time, the current (a.k.a. incoming) government will appear free from such divergences off the path of virtue, or if they do diverge, it is some schmuck's fault. So, what the media does and will continue to do is parade each salacious individual, one after the other, for all the world to see and upon which to gape. Then they will hang him one way or another and the sheeple will cheer for their just government. Meanwhile the real - and much more dangerous - crooks get away scot free. Typical of any Hollywood movie.

Wow. Is that a blog? That is some excellent writing. I like the part about the roaches. That had me rolling.

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