Another good post profitgenerator and definitely a lot of truth in there whether people are willing to admit it to themselves or not. Although it seems like an ever encroaching police state we must remember that it is the people who have all the power should we choose to use it and the powers that think they be also know this so whilst they continue to play their game of slowly attempting to remove all of our freedoms, they also realise that at any moment they may wake a sleeping tiger. There is in reality only so far they can push us before the masses take notice of what has been happening. This is, atleast, what I would like to believe . I still have faith that soon others will see what we can see and things will start changing around here. I really hope so.
thanks again for the post!
The sad truth is that it has always been like this, throughout human history. It's just that now we can see and study this and talk about this, on the internet.
The government was always evil, Hitler wasn't the first genocider. You had basically Julius Caesar who literally massacred down at least 1,000,000 people in total, including elderly, children and sick people who were crossing over his territory while being governor.
And somehow Caesar is revered as a hero of western culture. I really wonder how will Hitler be portrayed 1000 years from now.
I find it hard nowadays to believe anything from the mainstream history books I'm afraid especially when it has a psychological impact on our modern daily lives. I am familiar with the saying that those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it and certainly this is something to be aware of but we are also always being reminded that we shouldn't live in the past, we should live in the present. I don't dispute that everything you say may be correct and historically factual but when you have historical figures such as Winston Churchill saying that history will be kind to him for he intends to write it, you begin to see that the historical record may not always be as accurate as we are led to believe and can be bent and misrepresented in order to manipulate the masses into a particular world view. The power of propaganda must not be underestimated in our modern society. It is not just something used in times of war but one of the most powerful tools at the disposal of those who claim authority over us. The film The Usual Suspects included the line 'the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist!'. I propose that the greatest trick these devils ever pulled was convincing the world they were more powerful than they actually are. It's a very good trick!
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I am not so sure about that line of thinking. It is literally the worst thing you can do is to underestimate your enemy.
But then again, yes, people do have more power than they realize, so one of the goals of the propaganda machine is to make people feel powerless.
But this doesn't mean that they can just underestimate the will and the power of the tyrants either.