Forgive the shameless reference to the Led Zeppelin song but the title is pertinent to what I’m writing about today.
We all have different perspectives of what we see, hear and ultimately, choose to believe but what is real? What is true?
How can we trust that what we are told by our family, our friends, the media and most importantly, what our government tells us is the truth? Most of us will have a hard time accepting the fact that our close friends and family members would lie to us, but what if they are just misinformed? What if we were all misinformed and have been for a very long time?
I contend that a good 90% of everything we have ever been taught to be true by any authority or official source of information has either been: altered to support a certain viewpoint, a particular ideology, a religious or political agenda, or is an outright lie.
You have heard it said that “history is written by the winners”.
Well, in any major war or conflict where a clash of ideologies has been the point of contention, the loser’s voice of dissent is either marginalized or silenced. When we consider what we are told and why we should believe it, is the mere propagation and repetition of the “official story” really sufficient to deem it credible and truthful? Certainly not! That’s why this misinformation is called Propaganda!
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