Being TOLD WHAT TO THINK? NO! Critical Thinking helps fight the @Informationwar on our path to peace and prosperity!

If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.

One of the things @Informationwar #informationwar is going to combat against is propaganda. In this short blog post I am going to identify some key things I think everyone should know, so that you use these tools to evaluate information for yourself! :)

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If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.

We may have heard this expression growing up, it may or may not have come from Joseph Goebbels(Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany). Believe it or not, there actually isn't an attribution to the man himself for this quote, but many do attribute it to him(oh the irony).....But the fact remains that a lie heard round the world is the truth...At least for a time it is...

As Hitler once said

"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success. "

This may sound very familiar to you... The extremist movements on all sides(right,left,up,down,center,whatever) all do the same thing. Repeat talking points, vomit propaganda, never change their minds, attack attack attack. If you are on Reddit you know this as /r/politics + /r/news + /r/worldnews + most other subreddits vs /r/the_donald. Or even /r/bitcoin vs /r/btc.... The lies cannot continue unchecked, eventually something comes up to fight it. Whether or not /r/The_Donald or /r/BTC line up with your believes or what not, they are pretty consistent in their determination to find the truth, read data, analyze things, look for context. I would also add in /r/conspiracy to the list and a few others I am probably forgetting.

What if I told you, that a lie being told often enough becoming truth is related to something else you might have heard before?....

Bear with me here...

So why do people listen to the news? They want to be told what to think for the most part. What happens when the people telling us what to think are telling us their agenda, their propaganda, THEIR VISION??? Well you get what we currently have now! The rise of alt media and decentralized platforms are growing to combat the threat we face of propagandists in the MSM(on all sides).

This is why it is important that we continue to use these platforms to grow. To help our neighbors and friends grow. To teach critical thinking. What do most people know... They know what they are told, watch any video of some random college student being interviewed about their opinion on something and they regurgitate "what they were told by msm/society"... That doesn't make it right/correct/factually accurate, it well could be, but how do they really know???

We are becoming a society of wild animals being fed. Don't let it happen to you and your family/friends.