“We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds; we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretence; experience has made us suspicious of others and kept us from being truthful and open; intolerable conflicts have worn us down and even made us cynical. Are we still of any use? What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, and straightforward men.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Entirely correct. The propaganda is very thick. One must
push hard to get through it in order to discern the truth.
I tried to warn a “carefree” friend last weekend…gently,
of course. I reckon that until people begin to observe
severe losses, they will continue in denial and
rationalization.