They That Have Odds Of Power Exact As Much As They Can, And The Weak Yield To Such Conditions As They Can Get

Thucydides, an aristocrat who lived in Greece around 450 BCE, wrote this, commenting on how stronger sides in a war dictate reality to weaker ones.

It’s mentioned in passing here, a good article from Bombay that attempts to illustrate how the current propaganda machine in the West is ignoring or steamrollering our Enlightment heritage of radical doubt to portray create a sensation of a “just war” against unmitigated evil, and one that conflates Islam with evil.

the Western media offer us nonsensical mantras that, by repetition, have acquired the air of spiritual truths.

There was another Westerner who knew how this thing worked, how you could sway popular opinion using absolutist rhetoric: Hitler.

the magnitude of a lie always contains a certain factor of credibility, since the great masses of the people in the very bottom of their hearts tend to be corrupted rather than consciously and purposely evil, and that, therefore, in view of the primitive simplicity of their minds they more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one.