“The big lie” (große Lüge), is a propaganda technique of exaggerating misinformation to such a degree that no one would think the author could have the audacity to construct, let alone believe, such a fiction. This was first coined by Adolf Hitler in his Mein Kampf in reference to the Jews creating a fiction about General Erich Ludendorff’s responsibility for Germany's loss in the first world war. In regards to this große Lüge Hitler explains -
… in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.
It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.
— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X
Yet, in tragically ironic fashion, it was Hitler and his Nazi regime that actually employed the mendacious strategy… In short, Nazi fascism hinged on creating one streamlined, overarching lie ... the Nazis built an ideology on a fiction, the notion that Germany's defeat in World War I could be avenged (and reversed) by purging the German population of those purportedly responsible: the Jews.1
I wonder what could be going on today where the general population “would not believe others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think there may be some other explanation.”
"We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying" - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The problem with ppl is most of them construct their reality based on emotion not logic and facts. This translates precisely on what’s going on today. We have enough data showing Covid vaccine aren’t working, yet I’m still hearing the problem are de unvaccinated. What’s more astonishing to me is the fact that this is a global trend. I read and watch every day news in English but I’m from Brazil and the most surprising thing is when I hear a new narrative in the US news, takes about a week to the same narrative start been pushed in here. This makes me think lies are now been pushed systematically in a global scale, and ofc why wouldn’t be this way. Covid related lies makes all sense, but for instance last year when BLM and CRT started to gain traction in US news the same was pushed in here which makes no sense, yet some ppl in here (a small proportion) bough the idea. All and all this makes me believe that there is a centralized group that is pushing all this lies globally. What a didn’t figure out yet is what’s the final goal. I have 2 theories for end goals but I believe the end goal would be some sort of mass global slavery.
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"We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying" - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The problem with ppl is most of them construct their reality based on emotion not logic and facts. This translates precisely on what’s going on today. We have enough data showing Covid vaccine aren’t working, yet I’m still hearing the problem are de unvaccinated. What’s more astonishing to me is the fact that this is a global trend. I read and watch every day news in English but I’m from Brazil and the most surprising thing is when I hear a new narrative in the US news, takes about a week to the same narrative start been pushed in here. This makes me think lies are now been pushed systematically in a global scale, and ofc why wouldn’t be this way. Covid related lies makes all sense, but for instance last year when BLM and CRT started to gain traction in US news the same was pushed in here which makes no sense, yet some ppl in here (a small proportion) bough the idea. All and all this makes me believe that there is a centralized group that is pushing all this lies globally. What a didn’t figure out yet is what’s the final goal. I have 2 theories for end goals but I believe the end goal would be some sort of mass global slavery.
I have shared this. Thanks Winston.