tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034478.post5445391670767813989..comments2024-03-28T03:23:26.359-04:00Comments on Doug Ross @ Journal: DUDE: Cult Of Climastrology Wouldn't Look To Actually Ban "Climate Denial", Would They?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6034478.post-15870386196611531962015-10-11T21:35:51.689-04:002015-10-11T21:35:51.689-04:00Václav Havel: The Power of the Powerless (the soc...Václav Havel: The Power of the Powerless (the social and spiritual consequences of socialism)<br /><br />"The principle involved here is that the center of power is identical with the center of truth." Havel warns that socialist regimes create and enforce their own truth to maintain power. As time goes on, this truth diverges from factual truth and it increasingly forces those who support and depend upon the power of the regime to corrupt themselves to sustain the artificial truth. <br /><br />In the end, people not only lie to each other, but they start to lie to themselves.<br /><br />see:<br />http://www.vaclavhavel.cz/showtrans.php?cat=clanky&val=72_aj_clanky.html&typ=HTML<br /><br /><br /><br />[And the biggest lie of them all is that society will be better off when we each live at the expense of others and acquiesce to the armed agents of the State to force us into allowing others to live at our expense.]<br /><br />-- theBuckWheat enjoys being anonymous<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com