The great misfortune of the twentieth Century is to have been the one in which the ideal of liberty was harnessed to the service of tyranny, the ideal of equality to the service of privilege, and all the aspirations and social forces included under the label of the "Left" enrolled in the service of impoverishment and enslavement.
This immense imposture has falsified most of this century, partly through the faults of some of its greatest intellectuals. It has corrupted the language and action of politics down to tiny details of vocabulary, it has inverted the sense of morality and enthroned falsehood in the very center of human thought.”
The Flight From Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information 1991, Random House Jean-Francois Revel
And more:
“In the end, the gap between reality and ideology meant that the communist parties wound up spouting meaningless slogans they themselves knew made no sense. As the philosopher Roger Scruton argues, Marxism became so cocooned in what George Orwell once called “Newspeak” that it could not be refuted: “Facts no longer made contact with the theory, which had risen above the facts on clouds of nonsense, rather like a theological system. The point was not to believe the theory, but to repeat it ritualistically and in such a way that both belief and doubt became irrelevant… In this way, the concept of truth disappeared from the intellectual landscape, and was replaced by that of power.”
Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956, pp 465-466
Thanks for the excerpts adding meat to the discussion.
Good rhetoric is essential to conveying the truth to those who are receptive to it, but haven’t yet opened their eyes wide enough to really see what trouble we are in.
Lies are so pervasive that they form the water in which we swim.
But we must not be surprised. Jesus was offered the world if only He would worship Satan, and the context is clear that Satan had the authority to make the offer. The Apostle Paul called Satan the “price of the power of the air”. Twice in the Book of Daniel, angels tell Daniel that other “princes” control entire countries.
The Book of Daniel records that the “prince” of Persia is not an angel.
I can only surmise that when you see otherwise rational people in bizarre synchronized behavior, all accepting a deal with Iran that is almost certainly going to lead to war, that we are seeing spirit powers engaged in proxy battles through their human agents.
We may find out when Iran has a nuclear weapon when it tries to detonate it over Tel Aviv. Why bother to test? If it works, Jews die and the world knows. If it doesn’t work, Jews cower in fear, and the world still knows. Either result empowers Iran at the expense of everyone else.
And if Israel retaliates, well whoever dies in Iran will be a glorious martyr. The more the better in their theology.
Thanks Neville Obama! Peace in our time. Vote Progressive!
Which explains why much of what they say sounds like random numbers fed into a buzz-phrase-generator.