Propaganda 101: regular lies get discovered quickly, big lies eventually get discovered, but really enormous, horrible lies tend to overwhelm the mind and thus continue on until a tipping point of people overcome the enormity of it.
We are in that last stage on several issues, but there are even bigger ones that we'll have to punch through if we want to be free.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 35688242 I fear that we are at another stage in our evolution as follows.
The life expectancy of a democracy.
By: Alexander Tyler a professor of history at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland,
The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh ,had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”
“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.
During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;8. From dependence back to bondage.”
I think we are at level 7
