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Lies & The Santa Claus Syndrome

December 25, 2014 By Ethan Indigo Smith 6 Comments

The Santa Clause: Lying is OK, so long as everyone else is doing it. The “Santa Claus Syndrome” is the effect of societal complicity in, and/or complacency to, lies and the belief that’s ok. Take a moment to imagine yourself an outsider and visitor to a new culture. Imagine if you will an annual global […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: capitalism, Christianity, Christmas, Coca-Cola, consumerism, honesty, mythology, Neo-Paganism, Paganism, religion, ritual, Santa Claus, truth

Understanding The Mechanics Of Political And Corporate Lies

December 3, 2014 By Ethan Indigo Smith 1 Comment

Those involved in politics — the politicians, reporters and corporate lobbyists — are constantly lying. We all know it, we just don’t all appreciate the scope of it. Of course, there is outright lying which might be done in any number of ways, including complete conjuration and outright elimination of important information. However corporate heads, politicians and their faithful media normally prefer more nuanced presentations to their lies — so it pays to understand just how they go about it.

There is no wild “conspiracy theory” here, just a matter of linking the dots. Those with the greatest access to information in our oligarchical society are correspondingly the greatest liars to our society. That is how oligarchies are built – not by gaining the explicit agreement of the people to an inequitable ‘pyramid’ society, but by the covert and gradual creation of illusions to which the people progressively succumb. Oligarchs employ the addition, subtraction, division and multiplication of information to influence the minds of its society, gain its ongoing “consent” to remain at the bottom of the illusory pyramid.

Filed Under: Media & Culture Tagged With: 1984, Animal Farm, doublethink, George Orwell, Institutional Thinking, lies, newspeak, propaganda, The Ministry of Truth, truth, War, whistleblower, Winston Smith

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