Dalrymple On Propaganda

“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor 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 to cooperate with evil, and 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

1.) Dalrymple here goes a long way towards suggesting that not being open about your convictions in order to protect one’s self from consequences, when practiced on a wide scale, guarantees that the propaganda will win the day.

2.) Think about all the absurd things we have been told in the recent past that had no correspondence to reality.

a.) Wearing masks will aid in delivering you from getting Covid
b.) We went from being told that “getting a untested vaccine will prevent covid” to being told, “getting an untested vaccine will diminish the impact of covid.”

c.) Large jets flying into tall buildings make the buildings collapse
d.) The Epstein files are not that important
e.) Jeffrey Epstein killed himself while guards and cameras abounded
f.) Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine are ineffective against covid
d.) Iraq has weapons of mass destruction
e.) The Israeli Government did not know about 10/7 before it happened
g.) The USS Liberty was our fault (Doug Wilson – Amfest)
h.) The covid vaccine is “safe and effective.”
i.) Charlie Kirk was murdered by a sole crazed gunman
j.) Race is a social construct
k.) Men can be born in women’s bodies and women can be born in men’s bodies

After reading the list above now go back and re-read the quote above. All of the above has been dished out to us in order to humiliate us. It is gaslighting propaganda on a massive scale to the end of controlling us via controlling our ability to think rationally. As Dalrymple notes the end of all this is the inability to distinguish good from evil, and truth from lies. A people who are inundated with this kind of methodology (and we are inundated with it) become a people who no longer even have the opportunity to be a people with integrity.

All of this is why Solzhenitsyn admonished us to “live not by lies.”

Author: jetbrane

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