steadyaku47 comment : Read this at Antares Maitreya FB
A good read...exactly what is happening here in Bolehland!
Well,
I think the most noticeable feature (and this doesn’t just apply to
academia)…
What I noticed most strongly in the change in the last twenty years is the collapse of trust.
People do not trust ‘the authorities’ any more.
It actually doesn’t matter what they’re authorities in – the moment somebody is set up as the official authority on a subject, people out there don’t trust that person. And there’s a really good reason for that: because the authorities have lied to us again and again and again and again and again…
Deliberately lied, deliberately concealed. The association of authority with truth is no longer there. Authority is associated in the public mind with lies, and that’s because the authorities deserve that, because the buggers have lied all the time and continue to lie. And if they’re not lying, they dissemble and they spin and they alter things. It’s all about managing and manipulating public opinion in a democracy. I mean, we’re told that we live in this fantastic democracy, but actually the ability to have, to hold and to press home a free opinion is not that great in a democracy, because what the political process in democracies is all about is conning the electorate – it’s persuading the electorate to go for a particular point of view and that may be done by pressing all kinds of emotional and ideological buttons, rather than simple logic and reason.
So, we live in an environment which is riddled with lies and it’s quite natural, as a result of that, that an intelligent, discerning public should cease to trust the authorities.
with thanks to Graham Hancock
What I noticed most strongly in the change in the last twenty years is the collapse of trust.
People do not trust ‘the authorities’ any more.
It actually doesn’t matter what they’re authorities in – the moment somebody is set up as the official authority on a subject, people out there don’t trust that person. And there’s a really good reason for that: because the authorities have lied to us again and again and again and again and again…
Deliberately lied, deliberately concealed. The association of authority with truth is no longer there. Authority is associated in the public mind with lies, and that’s because the authorities deserve that, because the buggers have lied all the time and continue to lie. And if they’re not lying, they dissemble and they spin and they alter things. It’s all about managing and manipulating public opinion in a democracy. I mean, we’re told that we live in this fantastic democracy, but actually the ability to have, to hold and to press home a free opinion is not that great in a democracy, because what the political process in democracies is all about is conning the electorate – it’s persuading the electorate to go for a particular point of view and that may be done by pressing all kinds of emotional and ideological buttons, rather than simple logic and reason.
So, we live in an environment which is riddled with lies and it’s quite natural, as a result of that, that an intelligent, discerning public should cease to trust the authorities.
with thanks to Graham Hancock
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