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Carl Sagan | The bamboozle has captured us

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“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.” Carl Sagan “Eine der traurigsten Lehren der Geschichte ist diese: Wenn wir lange genug beschwindelt wurden, neigen wir dazu, jeden Beweis des Schwindels abzulehnen. Wir…

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Rumi | You can beat 40 scholars with one fact

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“You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you can’t beat one idiot with 40 facts” Rumi | mewlana_jalaluddin_rumi “Du kannst 40 Gelehrte mit einer Tatsache schlagen, aber du kannst nicht einen Idioten mit 40 Tatsachen schlagen” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Will Spencer | an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober

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“If your answer to every failure of government is more government, you are like an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober.” Will Spencer “Wenn deine Antwort auf jedes Versagen des Staats mehr Staat ist, bist du wie ein Alkoholiker, der versucht, sich nüchtern zu saufen. Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Robert A. Heinlein | There is no worse tyranny

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“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” Robert A. Heinlein “Es gibt keine schlimmere Tyrannei, als einen Menschen zu zwingen, für etwas zu bezahlen, das er nicht will, nur weil man glaubt, es wäre gut für ihn.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Gustave Le Bon | The masses have never thirsted after truth

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“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.” Gustave Le Bon “Nie haben die Massen nach Wahrheit gedürstet. Von den Tatsachen, die ihnen missfallen, wenden sie sich ab und ziehen…

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Jean-Luc Godard | Cannes is a propaganda tool

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“Zelensky’s intervention at the Cannes festival goes without saying if you look at it from the angle of what is called “staging”: a bad actor, a professional comedian, under the eye of other professionals in their own professions. I believe I must have said something along these lines a long time ago. It therefore took the staging of yet another world war and the threat of another catastrophe for us to know that Cannes is a propaganda tool like any other. They propagate Western aesthetics whilst thinking it is not…

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Neil deGrasse Tyson | I’m a fan of what Mark Twain said

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“I’m a fan of what Mark Twain said, he said; Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” Neil deGrasse Tyson “Ich bin ein Fan dessen, was Mark Twain sagte, er sagte; Holen Sie sich zuerst Ihre Fakten, und dann können Sie sie so weit verzerren, wie Sie möchten” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Smedley Darlington Butler | I might have given Al Capone a few hints

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“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American…

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M.A.Verick | The most dangerous Weapons of Mass Destruction are the Mass Media

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“The most dangerous Weapons of Mass Destruction are the Mass Media. For they destroy the people’s spirit, creativity and courage, replacing them by fear, mistrust, guilt and self-doubt.” M.A.Verick | (DAS MEDIEN MONOPOL – Gedankenkontrolle und Manipulationen) „Die gefährlichsten Massenvernichtungswaffen sind die Massenmedien. Denn sie zerstören den Geist, die Kreativität und den Mut der Menschen, und ersetzen diese mit Angst, Misstrauen, Schuld und Selbstzweifel.“ Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Prof. Christoph Degenhart | The broadcasters adopt government lines in an undifferentiated manner

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“In the portrayal of political processes, I often see a certain political one-sidedness. For example, when it comes to the topics of ecology or Europeanization, critics are always put in the right-wing corner. [….] The broadcasters adopt government lines in an undifferentiated manner. ARD and ZDF are increasingly acting as an acclamation forum for politics.” Professor Christoph Degenhart | (72 | Leipziger Medienrechtler) “In der Darstellung politischer Prozesse sehe ich oft eine gewisse politische Einseitigkeit. Zum Beispiel werden bei den Themen Ökologie oder Europäisierung Kritiker immer wieder in die rechte…

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Doris Lessing | “You are in the process of being indoctrinated”

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“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: “You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by…

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Georg Orwell | What counts is that we don’t betray each other

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“It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other.” Georg Orwell “Es geht nicht so sehr darum, am Leben zu bleiben, es ist wichtig, menschlich zu bleiben. Was zählt, ist, dass wir einander nicht verraten.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Dieter Hallervorden | ‘gendern’ is absurd and rather supervised speech

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“The German language as a cultural asset belongs to all of us. No one has a right to tamper with it. I wonder how a politically motivated minority comes to want to dictate to a majority how we want to express ourselves in the future. This unspeakable ,’gendern’ is absurd and rather supervised speech.” Dieter Hallervorden | Der Kabarettist “Die deutsche Sprache als Kulturgut gehört uns allen. Keiner hat ein Recht, darin herumzupfuschen. Ich frage mich, wie eine politisch motivierte Minderheit dazu kommt, einer Mehrheit vorschreiben zu wollen, wie wir…

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Caitlin Johnstone | The empire still fears the public

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“The empire still fears the public. If it didn’t it wouldn’t bother rolling out so much propaganda ahead of all its depraved actions—it would just act. They work so hard to manufacture our consent because they’re still afraid of what we’ll do to them if we decide we don’t consent.” Caitlin Johnstone | Autorin „Das Imperium hat immer noch Angst vor der Öffentlichkeit. Wenn es das nicht täte, würde es sich nicht die Mühe machen, so viel Propaganda im Vorfeld all seiner verderblichen Aktionen zu verbreiten – es würde einfach…

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Woody Harrelson | Of course, we live in a completely corrupted world

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“Of course, we live in a completely corrupted world where every government is just a bunch of businessmen working for a bunch of bigger businessmen and none of them give a shit about the people. The sad fact is no one knows how to change it, because no one knows how to take on the corporations. So I guess we’re stuck with this system until the oil runs out.” Woodrow Tracy „Woody“ Harrelson ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler “Natürlich leben wir in einer völlig korrupten Welt, in der jede Regierung nur…

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Thomas Jefferson | When government fears the people

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“When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” Thomas Jefferson “Wenn die Regierung das Volk fürchtet, gibt es Freiheit. Wenn das Volk die Regierung fürchtet, gibt es Tyrannei.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Frank Zappa | Schools train people to be ignorant

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“Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don’t give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower. As long as you’re just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you’re gonna…

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Erich Fromm | The holders of authority and those who take advantage of it

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“The holders of authority and those who take advantage of it must convince people of this fiction and put to sleep their realistic, that is to say, critical, faculty of thought. Every thinking person knows the methods of propaganda, methods by which critical judgment is destroyed and the mind is lulled until it submits to clichés that stultify people because they make them dependent, depriving them of the ability to trust their eyes and their judgment. This function, in which they believe, blinds them to reality.” Erich Fromm “Die Inhaber…

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Vince Ebert | Political correctness

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“Political correctness has now reached a level in our society that I see as highly questionable. It starts with the deletion of more and more postings in the social media. Postings, mind you, with content that is clearly not punishable or otherwise legally actionable. The mere fact that a certain group might feel offended by a text is enough. More and more companies and corporations are joining this unfortunate trend and issuing internal memos about required language rules or how to deal with certain topics, the disregard of which can…

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Karl Kraus | How is the world ruled and led to war?

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“How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.” Karl Kraus | (1874 – 1936), österreichischer Schriftsteller, Publizist, Satiriker, Lyriker, Aphoristiker und Dramatiker Quelle: Kraus, Nachts. Aphorismen, 1924. V. 1915 “Wie wird die Welt regiert und in den Krieg geführt? Diplomaten belügen Journalisten und glauben es, wenn sie’s lesen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Noam Chomsky | Therefore it’s important to distract them

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“The bewildered herd is a problem. We’ve got to prevent their roar and trampling. We’ve got to distract them. They should be watching the Superbowl or sitcoms or violent movies. Every once in a while you call on them to chant meaningless slogans like “Support our troops.” You’ve got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they’re properly scared and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they’re not…

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Noam Chomsky | why the propaganda system works

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“I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.” Noam Chomsky “Ich denke, es gibt einen guten Grund, warum das Propagandasystem so funktioniert. Es erkennt, dass die Öffentlichkeit die eigentliche Politik nicht unterstützen wird. Deshalb ist es wichtig, jede Kenntnis oder jedes Verständnis von ihnen zu verhindern.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Georges Bernanos | violence in the service of the totalitarian state

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“It is not the use of violence that seems to me condemnable, but its mysticism, the religion of violence in the service of the totalitarian state, in the service of the dictatorship of the general welfare, considered not as a means but as an end.” Georges Bernanos (Schriftsteller, wird als “französischer Dostojewski” bezeichnet, “Monsieur Ouine”, “Les Grands Cimetières sous la Lune”, “Nouvelle Histoire de Mouchette” | Frankreich, 1888 – 1948). “Nicht der Gebrauch der Gewalt erscheint mir verdammenswert, sondern ihre Mystik, die Religion der Gewalt im Dienste des totalitären Staates,…

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Winston Churchill | bodyguard of lies

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“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” Winston S. Churchill “In Kriegszeiten ist die Wahrheit so kostbar, dass sie immer von einer Leibwache der Lügen begleitet werden sollte.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…