IF YOU HAD TO CONVINCE ME TO BELIEVE A LIE, HOW WOULD YOU DO IT? by J Loren Norris

IF YOU NEEDED TO CONVINCE ME THAT BROCCOLI WAS THE BOUNTIFUL, NUTRITIOUS GREEN LEAFY PLANT READILY AVAILABLE IN EVERY LAWN, HOW WOULD YOU DO IT?

There are some ideas which benefit one crowd over another. There are certain ideologies which bear no truth whatsoever, but the fact that people believe them and are willing to invest their time, talent, reputation and wealth to see the world come to accept these ideologies gives them weight and merit - not substance but merit. Not truth, but merit. Not hope or help or benefit for all, but merit. Meaning, as wrong as they are, as false as they are, they must still be acknowledged and countered or confronted.

Perhaps your parents, like mine, would ask the ridiculously rhetorical question: “If EVERYONE or all of your friends jumped off the cliff, would you jump too?”

The problem was simple. Parents, with the benefit of age, wisdom and supposed maturity, PRESUMED that logic would prevail in the answering of the question. These parents SEVERELY underestimated the power of peer pressure or the MOB MENTALITY.

Truth and logic have no merit in mob mentality or peer pressure. The entire concept of thinking is overridden by feeling. If I can make you emotional enough, your reaction won’t allow clear, logical thinking. This psychological FACT is the reason we have laws on the books which define heinous crimes under a special circumstances category of “crimes of passion.”

If you must convince people to act in a certain way, believe a certain thing, carry on a certain idea, the ends will always justify the means. If you have to lie to them, trick them, deceive them, mislead them, seed the crowd with true believers who would risk life and limb for the promulgation of the lie - well, alls fair in love and war. ((Like the journalist who latter admitted his entire story about a particular candidate was 100% made up but said “So what if I have lost my career, at least that %$%#@ isn’t our president.”)))

“If the attitude is right, the facts don’t matter.”
“People buy emotionally and rationalize later. (Or justly the logic later)”
“Look how you made me feel!”

Whip the crowd into a frenzy emotionally, then turn them on your enemy! Its is a manipulation of emotion, a form of hypnotism, the media are masters at this form of persuasion.

Never underestimate the driving force of a long range agenda. Leaders who cannot recognize the short lived lies which are used to direct and redirect long term goals will fall victim to both.

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