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Briefly, as we were analyzing these unfolding events and asking how the public could so easily be fooled back into war, it felt as though we were in a unique time in history. After all, this is the Data Age: The ability to challenge our leaders avowals with facts is merely a few keystrokes away. Not so. How little things have changed. How easy it is to catch an unsuspecting public with its collective guard down and propagandize it into war. How easy it is to repackage failed reasoning. Mark Twain wrote, in 1916: … the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 03:29:26 +0000

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