Unsupported Speculation

Thinking to myself about a strange phenomenon, which is that what people are told about current wars is all mostly strategically valuable fictions, and this makes society only function adequately but not optimally, because people’s mass beliefs don’t really correspond with reality.

You see, we live in an era where world beliefs and opinions are regarded as a valid theater of war, and when we are caused to be prejudiced against groups of people because of lies we were told, or act in some way beneficial to our government, then we are like people with an illness that only gives us a case of the sniffles. It isn’t completely debilitating; ie We aren’t bedridden, and can still go to work and get groceries and other things, but we aren’t completely well either.

It is because of the vast geographic separation between the public here and the people we are told to hate there. We are insulated from learning things that may make us realize we are being lied to here. We are also isolated from the true beliefs and motivations of the people we are told are our enemies, and the government instead will supply us with what they purport are their enemy’s true beliefs, but it will only be easy to digest hogwash to cause us to dismiss them as fellow human beings equal to ourselves.

From our enemy’s point of view, it is like being pushed and beaten through the public with your head and hands in a board, while people, their faces contorted with hatred, shout curses and hurl rotten vegetables at you, when they know nothing true about you whatsoever.

But thinking today is that the greatest strategic value of public opinion is when it is aligned and concentrated with no divisions. It allows the government to continue to approve funding for expensive projects. It allows the government to remain fighting wars without meaningful opposition.

In fact, today virtually every domain of human beings is considered a valid space that the government and military can act within to effect changes for their benefit. And this means that at least during normal economic competitions between other countries, and especially during wars, everything is at least slightly falsified in order to garner the most strategic advantages from their falsehoods.

But it almost doesn’t matter! Like I wrote above, we still go to work, buy things, contribute to the economy, pay our taxes, and the falsehoods we are told are never so much that it threatens the stability of the government itself. We all function only adequately, because the lies we are told aren’t so false that we suffer clear and negative consequences in our lives for believing them. They still allow us and the state to function even though they are false.

Modern propaganda takes full advantage of the fact that it is possible to lie to people carefully, so that they don’t know the truth, but it also doesn’t seriously degrade their ability to perform their roles and do their jobs either. This is counterintuitive, and we all expect that believing lies would naturally create friction and conflict with reality itself, revealing the lie, but this is only the case of the most blatant and crude lies. Another kind of lie turns people into pawns who will still do their work, but the work they do isn’t undermined by the lie. But, in some areas of their work, the lie disadvantages a deliberately chosen target.

You see, the government is like one, enormous, umbrella corporation, but instead of being completely unified, it is mildly schizophrenic. And, if you were to look, you would find within every single organ of government, however significant or insignificant, people lying, here and there, to advantage their specific government work and disadvantage others.