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Plato's Cave and Our Current Reality
American Thinker ^ | November 19, 2017 | Earick Ward

Posted on 11/19/2017 6:43:51 AM PST by Popman

Today, we are increasingly faced with a contrived reality. A mirage. Images shone on a wall (television screens, cell-phone, laptops) portraying what our captors wish for us to believe (is reality).

What is truth? Let me suggest that truth, increasingly, is a byproduct of force. Are any important matters reasoned true today, or are we stuck in a battle of messaging wills? In this, let me suggest, the Left are winning, as we’ve abandoned reason, and are left with, whatever message can be advanced enthusiastically enough, to run roughshod over the other. As Goebbels stated;

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie; and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

What we see playing out in America, and throughout the world, is two starkly different worldviews: Freedom and the State (bondage).

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: bondage; freedom; platoscave; reality; worldview
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To: HLPhat

41 posted on 11/19/2017 4:39:44 PM PST by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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To: Daffynition

Go on out East and take a drive through Death Valley.

You can still find the rusting skeletal remains of the dreamers lured there in the 30’s by the pick and shovel selling parasites who salted the fields.

Same Ol’.

The Golden Calf always gets fat before the slaughter.


42 posted on 11/19/2017 5:25:44 PM PST by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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