If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. [Falsely attributed to Joseph Goebbels]
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Tracking Report #3
Google is at times mysterious. Last week a Google search for “truth is the greatest enemy of the State" got over a million hits. Today it gets 242,000. However, a search for the phrase with “Goebbels” as an additional term results in 999,000 hits. We’ll have to try both searches in the future.
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