A Small Tapestry of Lies
Two Canadian Lies
Freedom Lets You Live Longer
Democracy Makes you Happy
Revolutions Also Make You Happy
Hurray for India, Twice
Bad Russia
Nuts to You, Too
The Missing Half
The Fingers Were Live, but the Strings Were Fake
80% of Chinese Scientists use Google
Let's Win an Olympic Medal
China's Pollution Problem
China Copies Everything
The Dark Side of the Moon
Propaganda, Media, Lies
Cropping, Cutting and Pasting
Toppling of Saddam Hussein's Statue in Baghdad
China Brutalises Tibetans (Again)
Tiananmen Square
China’s Jasmine Revolution
A Lie of Omission is Still a Lie
China: Bullying to Prosperity
China Imprisons yet another Human Rights Lawyer
Jessica Lynch
The Death of Osama bin Laden
By Larry Romanoff, October 11, 2022
Credit Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Obama_and_Biden_await_updates_on_bin_Laden.jpg
One of the conditions of Western society today in which all citizens are immersed, is that the lie has become the truth and the truth a lie. The lies that have become the truth, emanate primarily from governments and corporations, while the truths which are lies are on the part of the people. These latter are at the very least "misinformation" bordering on domestic terrorism, the telling of which is attracting increasingly onerous and even frightening repressive and punitive measures. We seem to be 80% of the way to the end game.
I cannot be certain but, delving back into my memory, this condition seems to have appeared or at least gained enormous vigor around 1980, the time of "The Great Transformation" of Western society. That was the time when all of the West took an alarming turn to the extreme political Right. There have always been lies of course, from governments, militaries, corporations, religions, and by the media themselves but, prior to 1980, such events would have been rare, scandalous, and considered unforgivable, and possibly heads would have rolled somewhere. But today, lies are the norm, the accepted response to all challenges, and the media are absolutely in the front lines. Today, the lies are so common they seem to elicit no response. We Westerners have become so inured that we no longer resist or protest although, in fairness, our protests today would be futile.
