Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“Politicians, policy-makers, and all too many ‘thought leaders,’ lie. They lie about their actions. They lie about the motives behind their actions. They lie about the effects, both prospective and retrospective, of their actions. They lie knowingly, they lie constantly, and they lie for the most obvious reason: Telling the truth wouldn’t get them what they want. What they want, of course, is power. Ever more power, over more people and more things, world without end. It’s not an occasional case, it’s a systemic attribute. As Friedrich Nietzsche noted in the 19th century, ‘everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.’ A collective entity built on lies must necessarily be made up of individual liars.” (02/11/25)