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]
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Tracking Report #7
A Google search on 11 September 2013 finds 379,000 hits for the phrase “truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Bing, which last time returned only 8,500 hits, now claims 17,000,000. That can’t be right, so I'll check again in a few days. The Google total is almost exactly the same as it was back in May 2013.
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