Tom, thank you so much for the kind words! I agree that satire is and has historically been one of the most effective tools for jarring people out of their hypnosis. I’m trying every angle I can to shake the sleeping to consciousness. I know reaching a critical mass takes time—a luxury we don’t really have given the pace totalitarianism is accelerating at—but what else can we do but try?
Tom, thank you so much for the kind words! I agree that satire is and has historically been one of the most effective tools for jarring people out of their hypnosis. I’m trying every angle I can to shake the sleeping to consciousness. I know reaching a critical mass takes time—a luxury we don’t really have given the pace totalitarianism is accelerating at—but what else can we do but try?
you are very welcome Margaret and I applaud your tenacity, the hypnosis is really deep with so many of them and time is indeed slipping away, but we persist, that's all there is, truth will prevail!
Aww, thanks, Tom. It is indeed a challenge, but I, too, believe truth will prevail! They can only sustain a false narrative for so long before objective reality comes crashing through the glass like the Kool-Aid Man.
As Goebbels says:
“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 of 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.”
we have one third of the mass who are awake, one third hypnotised and one third in no mans land, we only need a few of the latter to sway the pendulum, keep at it Margaret your words will help the 'sway'!
Exactly! I’m really trying to reach what I call the “swing thinkers”—those who are rational enough to intuitively sense something is very awry but too uninformed to realize exactly what’s occurring as well as those who may realize what’s wrong but are too cowed by peer pressure to take a stand.
Tom, thank you so much for the kind words! I agree that satire is and has historically been one of the most effective tools for jarring people out of their hypnosis. I’m trying every angle I can to shake the sleeping to consciousness. I know reaching a critical mass takes time—a luxury we don’t really have given the pace totalitarianism is accelerating at—but what else can we do but try?
you are very welcome Margaret and I applaud your tenacity, the hypnosis is really deep with so many of them and time is indeed slipping away, but we persist, that's all there is, truth will prevail!
Aww, thanks, Tom. It is indeed a challenge, but I, too, believe truth will prevail! They can only sustain a false narrative for so long before objective reality comes crashing through the glass like the Kool-Aid Man.
As Goebbels says:
“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 of 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.”
we have one third of the mass who are awake, one third hypnotised and one third in no mans land, we only need a few of the latter to sway the pendulum, keep at it Margaret your words will help the 'sway'!
Exactly! I’m really trying to reach what I call the “swing thinkers”—those who are rational enough to intuitively sense something is very awry but too uninformed to realize exactly what’s occurring as well as those who may realize what’s wrong but are too cowed by peer pressure to take a stand.
that's a great way of putting it, as in politics its always the swing vote that wins it. We all keep swinging!