“The time is almost here — and ignorance, falsehood, cruelty, greed and lust of power were never stronger in the hearts of any ruling class in history than they are in those who constitute the Invisible Government of America today. Day by day the money-masters of America become more aware of their danger, they draw together, they grow more class-conscious, more aggressive.
The [first world] war has taught them the possibilities of propaganda; it has accustomed them to the idea of enormous campaigns which sway the minds of millions and make them pliable to any purpose. American political corruption was the buying up of legislatures and assemblies to keep them from doing the people’s will and protecting the people’s interests; it was the exploiter entrenching himself in power, it was financial autocracy undermining and destroying political democracy.”
Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check, 1919
“Booms start with some tie-in to reality, some reason which justifies the increase in asset values, and then — and this is the critical feature of speculative mood — the market loses touch with reality.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“A country that tolerates evil means—evil manners, standards of ethics—for a generation, will be so poisoned that it never will have any good end.”
Sinclair Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here
“Everyone knows that plagues have a way of recurring throughout history, yet somehow we find it hard to believe in the ones that crash down on us out of the sky. There have always been plagues and wars, yet they always take us by surprise. When war breaks out people say it’s stupid and won’t last long. Stupidity has a knack of getting in the way, which we would see if not wrapped up in ourselves. In this our townsfolk were like everybody else— they did not believe in plagues.”
Albert Camus, The Plague
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Propaganda doesn’t make pliable. Pliable makes propaganda. Homo pliable is designed for it. Needs it. “I want to believe…” in “something larger.” Nothing fills that void, but believers’ll take all the big-bigger-biggest lies they can get.
Ordo- This one is for you. Sinclair/St.Clair, bloodline of higher degree. Alas, Upton is of the bloodline.