“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
Excellent quote.
I enjoy the writings of the British physician with the pen name Theodore Dalrymple.
Thanks for that post and thanks for posting the original article.
This is well worth reading.
I particularly like the way the author explains the four different types of liberals. It helps to explain to many conservatives why not all liberals are evil. Some just need to have their eyes opened. They are swimming in a sea of toxic information (MSM) and if they ever looked outside that echo chamber and considered alternate ideas and opinions and saw the many facts that the liberal media suppresses, they might modify some of their views.