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King2Savanah's avatar

The simple mistake many, many people make is they consider that anything they see-read-hear in the media of from some government bureaucrat or politician, is actually accurate in any way.

Collapsing empires always follow the same path where at their weakest point, the lies become so pervasive that no one believes any of it anymore. Even if from time to time they actually tell the truth.

It is still not believed, because the fetid stench of their corrupt existence becomes utterly axiomatic to the senses of even the most dull witted among the population.

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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

I remember the news stories coming out of the Soviet Union in those days. Now Americans are learning exactly how Soviet citizens felt. The lies coming from our media and government on a daily basis are at least as dystopian as those of the old Soviet government,

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