Comment by lb1lf
15 hours ago
As for your last point, Solzhenitzyn said something memorable about that -
'We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.'
It makes you wonder if 'disinformation' actually works if the mass propaganda of totalitarian regimes fails so dramatically.
There is an interesting book called 'Not Born Yesterday' that points out that people are pretty skeptical .
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45358676-not-born-yester...
Russian disinformation campaigns the past 20 years have been outrageously effective.
Only because of the invention of western platforms tuned by the brightest minds in the world to enable the maximum amount of brainwashing
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In our time, the lie has become the pillar industry of the internet.
I love it how Americans point to such quotes without realizing that this is how most corporate jobs function.
Any large, hierarchical organization is likely to end up resembling this, be it public or private.
By the way, this American is Norwegian and didn't even set foot on US territory until my early twenties... :)
A thousand big companies is still better than one gigantic state company. I’d prefer a million small companies though