Carl Sagan got it right when he spoke about trust
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: if we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth."
Thanks to Lenore who made a comment in my Deion Sanders article that linked to an opinion piece about trust.
The article talked, among other things, about the Bernie Madoff effect: “And even when it starts to become clear we have been fooled, whether on a small, large, or life-threatening scale, the vast majority reject it.”
This quote stood out for me:
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: if we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, Even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Sarl Sagan, The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark
For more on this, see the full article.
I’m just listening to some conversations between Catherine Austin Fitts & John Rappaport on Solari website.
She tells the story of crooks who, time without number, have ripped off & damaged others, until one time, they’re cornered. The hero has a bead drawn on the crooks & asks why the hell they've done all these evil things. One crook replies, sidelong glance: “No one ever fights back”.
It’s up to us to be the change we want to see. Otherwise the crooks will do their worst. Deagel will be right & the rest will be enslaved.
I am at the point where I believe every agency head, cabinet secretary, member of congress and, it pretty much goes without saying, POTUS, is corrupt and on the take from one or more benefactor or the other: Pharma, military industrial, Wall Street, oil, wind, solar, China, Russia, Ukraine, Iran, whatever. Every. Single. One. The only alternative explanation is that we have a collection of the most willfully ignorant and monumentally incompetent humans on earth populating our federal government. The former seems more plausible than the latter since even the most incompetent but well-meaning dolt would endeavor to improve the lives of average Americans instead of making them poorer, less free, less healthy, or dead.