“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.
The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness."
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
“The mob believes everything it is told, provided only that it be repeated over and over. Provided too that its passions, hatreds, fears are catered to. The grosser, the bigger, the cruder the lie, the more readily is it believed and followed. The mob has no memory; needless to pretend to any truth: the mob is radically incapable of perceiving it: the mob can never comprehend that its own interests are what is at stake.”
Alexandre Koyré, Réflexions sur le Mensonge
"You are of your father the devil, and your will is to fulfill your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks from his own character— for he is a liar and the father of lies."
John 8:44
Stocks took a deep turn down today on the realization that we can't print our way out of everything.
The Dollar rallied, and the usual games were played with gold and silver and their related investments.
Governor Cuomo today noted that those who are placed on ventilators have about a 20% survival rate.
I am sure there will be a study from some business funded think tank that says if the survival rate is that low, then we should not bother with all the expense of building and procuring them. Better to put that money to work on tax cuts and bailouts.
You know, like the moneyed interest funded campaign to quit all this lolly-gagging and get back to work.
Bailouts for the rich, the virus for the rest.
"A thriving upper class accepts with a good conscience the sacrifice of untold human beings, who, for its sake, must be reduced and lowered to incomplete human beings, to functionaries, to instruments."But hey, it's all good. Good to the last drop.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Have a pleasant evening.
