Quick, who was the first president of the United States? George Washington, right? Wrong! Now on to the million dollar question: who said the famous quote: “Let them eat cake”? You said Marie Antoinette right? Wrong! In Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” we read: “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right… Time makes more converts than reason.” In other words: If you tell an untruth long enough, eventually, it becomes history. In thinking of currently held beliefs of falsehoods, two specific examples come to mind. One of them being that George Washington was the first president of the United States, and the other being Marie Antoinette’s famous quote “let them eat cake”. Prepare to be shocked, as you learn that George Washington was actually the 9th man to preside over our fledgling country, and Marie Antoinette never said “let them eat cake”. These two common misconceptions clearly show that a lie told long enough becomes truth. I believe Joseph Goebbels said it best when he stated: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.
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It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the
It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the