We live in the period of the industrial revolution. The current emphasis on services and computers has prompted some to call this era “post-industrial” or “the computer age.” I think we also can call this the era of the “big lie technique.”
The “big lie technique” characterized Nazi propaganda. The bigger the lie, and the more often repeated, the more believed. The Nazis used that technique effectively against the Jewish people and others. So did the Soviet Communists. For me, those were contemporary events that I well remember.
Inspired by a combination of Islamic, Nazi, and Communist tactics, many Arabs also employ the “big lie technique” against Israel, the Jewish people, and the U.S.. They inspire Western leftists to adopt the lies about Israel without questioning the whole campaign based on Jew-hating prejudice.
Governments that appease the Arabs, or that, like the State Dept., an heir to Christian and especially missionary prejudice, promote their own anti-Israel bias.
Now that the Internet has made anonymous, networked, and swift communication available to uneducated people and bigots, big lies get disseminated widely.
Counter-reaction is weak. The major media and schools systems did not do their jobs of informing people and training them to think and question assumptions. They did not inculcate wholesome values. Colleges allowed youths’ impulse for challenge and reform to become nihilistic and yet imagine they were idealistic.
Not only did the academic world lose its integrity. So did publishers. There always were rogue books, but now, so many embrace the big lies, that it is difficult for people to know what the truth is. Many don’t care. They stick with their ideology against observable evidence, just as did hard-core Communists.
There is little societal challenge to the mass of libel encircling our planet, absorbing people’s energy, and diverting their attention from real problems.
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"Inspired by a combination of Islamic, Nazi, and Communist tactics, many Arabs also employ the “big lie technique” against Israel, the Jewish people, and the U.S. They inspire Western leftists to adopt the lies about Israel without questioning the whole campaign based on Jew-hating prejudice."
Think you got it backwards there, buddy.
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