Living in the Age of Lies
As I have done in the past I'm posting below a short interview with an author who has written a book I have not read. The title is L'Empire du mensonge (The Empire of the Lie), the author Maurice Bonnet, the publisher l'Aencre, and the questions are posed by Fabrice Dutilleul:
- Why such a violent title?
- I am not the only one to realize that we are saturated with lies, but I am, perhaps, the first to envisage this problem in its origin and global aspect. The first to present it under the totalitarian aspect that characterizes it today. I am of course speaking of the lie that is spread in public under the political and societal angle. Most lies, whatever form they take (biased arguments, one-sided accounts, false representation, etc…) are not perceived as lies by the people and become part of the global Lie that constitutes our atmosphere and forms our mentalities. That's what this is about, well beyond particular cases, even serious ones, that can be or have already been denounced here and there.
- Would there be a global Lie arching over all the particular lies?
- In a way, yes! I maintain and I show that, without our realizing it, the lie penetrates everywhere today thanks to a media system and methods that never cease to become more sophisticated, and that the climate in which we live is entirely mendacious, more and more mendacious, because the empire of the lie is all-conquering.
- Is it a conspiracy?
- No, a phenomenon that originated in an already distant past, accelerated by the astonishing progress of techniques, the monopolization of the media, the great number and immensity of conflicts of interest. Certain discussions have become impossible, except in a restricted circle, and even then one must be prudent. Living under the reign of monochromatic and compulsory thought, the crime of opinion being inscribed in our laws, speech is no longer free. And the Big Lie is precisely to claim the opposite, with some success. What motivates me naturally is the desire to arouse the greatest possible number of our compatriots, and what saddens me is to note how few of them realize the extent to which they are kept infantilized, unconscious of evolving in an fabricated, hence mendacious, ambiance. All the information that pours forth bubbles with "good faith". I explain the methods of the lie and the implications. And the considerable role of the "useful idiots". It is difficult to fight indifference, laziness, cowardice, stupidity and incredulity at one time.
Note: I would add to that list the difficulty of fighting a refusal to admit mistakes, a refusal to back off from a collective omertà that forbids any concession to the truth, and a certain superstition regarding the truth, as if terrible things will befall us if we admit that things are not what we say they are. The various taboos that haunt us and prevent us from speaking out constitute a return to more primitive superstitions, and this in a resolutely atheistic society.
- You also take on democracy…
- It's a pleasure I did not deny myself. I must say our democracy is so pleased with itself, so quick to give lessons, at a time when it is pathetically incapable of resolving anything, resigning itself to stop-gap expedients. In the fairy tale, the Emperor has no clothes. Our democracy is quite simply an impostor. It's the only part of my essay where I admit to having yielded to a polemical vein, but my opinion is backed by works that I mention at the end of my book in the bibliography.
- And you also seem to blame feminism.
- I know many intelligent, marvelous women, and I feel that none of them would disagree with me. I call a spade a spade, and the condition into which our society is sinking is a disaster, due to the combined forces of the egalitarian lie, the venom of mixing women with men ("mixité"), the stupid principle of parity, and other idiocies of the same ilk. The situation is extremely grave. The invasion of all functions by women, even in the police and the army, should put us on the alert. We are going mad. This world, these people, who never stop talking about their "values", without ever explaining what they really consist of, have lost the most precious of values: simple common sense. (…)
The book can be purchased at Francephi, for 23 euros.
Note: The fact that I link to a bookseller is not necessarily an endorsement of all the books listed for sale at the website.
Labels: Crisis of survival, Culture, Feminism, Intellectual Terrorism, Media
posted by tiberge @ 7:57 AM
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The Global Lie
"Most lies, whatever form they take (biased arguments, one-sided accounts, false representation, etc…) are not perceived as lies by the people and become part of the global Lie that constitutes our atmosphere and forms our mentalities."
- Excellent choice, tiberge!
I have the pleasure of getting to know about this book here at your blog. This is obviously a highly necessary book where what many of us are feeling but may not find the words to express, is put into words and held up for all to see as The Global Lie.
Part of this lie, as I see it, is the pressure on native Europeans to be taught what to think and what not to think. You see it everywhere, but most who are unconscient need to be told in capital letters about this Global Lie, which is The Tool to use to finally arrive at The Truth - Al Haq - which means that unwanted totalitarian system of the years 600.
Again, most people must be told in capital letters to understand what is happening. Far, or close, history, or even the daily news, is not enough to make them connect the dots.
I am very happy/sorry that this book is out!
(Cosmetics, tiberge
"in an fabricated, hence mendacious, ambiance. All the ")
(Please delete this, my comment:)
Another excellent book is called Sinisterism: The Secular Religion of the Lie, by Bruce Walker. You can buy it at Amazon for 20 bucks new. He also wrote The Swastika against Christianity, which is an excellent expose on the false history being taught that Hitler was a Christian. Tell that to Dietrich Bonhoeffer. One more book is by Gary Krupp, a critical analysis of Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust.
@ Jewel,
Sinisterism is a very a propos title, since "sinister" means "left". In Italian the word for "left" is "sinistra".
The real question for me is whether this Lie is correctible at all. Or have we gone over a brink never before envisaged in the history of our culture? I know I appear to be suggesting the possibility that we cannot be redeemed, and that is a fatalistic and not very useful idea, yet that is exactly what I am saying. It's possible that something has happened that cannot be undone. The potential to undo it of course exists. But potentialities are not very helpful when you need actualities.
Tiberge, we are in momentous times. We face daunting challenges, and in an age where everything is lightning fast, including the desires to have our problems resolved and all needs and desires met, it is even more challenging. We need to develop a long view of the world and of life. The Sinestrists always plan. For a hundred years they've planned, and planned, and implemented in tiny increments. Now we have to embrace the inevitable destruction that comes from ignoring all those termites.
I believe the house is coming down, but the foundation, if we can find it through the rubble is strong and still there. I don't think these problems will end with elections, but with renaissances. Do we have the will to survive?
One of the reasons I left the Church of Christ and evangelicalism was that a troubling form of fatalism had begun to pollute my thinking. It comes in the form of 'end times' bible prophecies being fulfilled, at least according to the evangelical interpretation of the bible. A kind of bunker mentality had crept into my thinking. That we are doomed.
This is wrong, and while evil, once more is waxing strong, while goodness seems to be waning, God is our ever present help and never changing. Eternity is not posthumous but present in the here and now.
The problem with cursing the darkness is that you eventually run out of curse words! ;)
You can never correct the Lie so long as there are those willing to spread it and those more willing to believe it.
You can only tell the truth, and consequences be damned.
Well said, Jewel:)
"I believe the house is coming down, but the foundation, if we can find it through the rubble is strong and still there"
Our civilization is based on thinking individuals, which is totally different from the followers of Evil.
Does anybody have any idea why the house is coming down? What happened after 1968 that set into motion a precipitous decline? Why would once proud nations suddenly open their borders to aliens who have little in common with our culture and whose intent is not to adapt but to subjugate? Why would sane rational people weave an elaborate system of taboos, topics we are often not allowed to even entertain in our minds let alone discuss openly in society. Whatever faults men like de Gaulle and Eisenhower and Churchill had, they would not have allowed this to happen. Neither would John F. Kennedy. But it was the Old Age. The Democrats were always liberal, but the party as a whole had not gone over the brink into advocacy of depraved behavior or renunciation of national identity.
It seems that humanity is always waiting for an excuse to plummet into a lesser state, a state that is easier on their brain, that makes no demands on their moral fiber or their courage. I realized long ago that our failure to properly manage the war in Viet Nam was an excuse for the youth of America to strip naked, spit on the flag and hold hostage an entire civilization and its authority figures, such as police, teachers, priests, parents. But what happened to make the police, teachers, priests and parents lose heart, and cave in to the infantile and ridiculous demands of young people who were clearly spoiled brats, and ignorant of their own indebtedness to the culture they were spitting on? Does anybody have an answer?
I say something cosmic happened. A cosmic shift in the heavens that has affected the entire planet. Just as two thousand years ago there was another cosmic shift, when Christ was born, setting into motion the transformational upheavals that created modern Europe. The Roman Empire did decline, but did not disappear. It was transformed into the Byzantine Empire and the Roman Church. And likewise we are declining, be we won't disappear entirely. However we can't know what will befall our civilization until it happens. Will we push back Islam, as the Greek Empire tried to do until 1453? And if we are overrun as Byzantium was by the Ottoman Turks, where will we flee to?
We visit Roman ruins, oblivious to the fact that our own cities are already largely in ruins - Detroit, Baltimore, Newark, Camden, parts of D.C., Philadelphia, even Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Boston. And others. Our renaissance should be beginning soon. But I see no signs of anything stirring. However, that does not mean it cannot happen. For a renaissance to happen you need a concentration of highly intelligent and gifted people. And a feeling of optimism, a feeling of being uplifted by great and good vital forces that cannot be denied.
So we agree there has to be a renaissance. But we still don't know what made the house come down in the first place, unless the expiration date was passed. A two thousand-year period of growth, prosperity and accomplishment has given way to a rotting that has to be allowed to play itself out, forming the humus for a real New Age, not the one we see about us now. No life without decay. Am I right? Or too morbid?
So, in the end, a natural human desire to reject the rigor of civilization, i.e., a WILL TO DECAY, combined easily with the inevitable and predictable end of a two-thousand-year age, in accordance with laws of the universe that govern the life and death of civilizations.
The Greeks believed in their gods, but they believed in Fate as well, and the gods could do nothing against Fate. When Hector goes out to meet his death, no god can save him because no god is more powerful than fate.
We believe it to be otherwise. We believe, as Jewel said, that God is our "ever present help". For us, God accompanies us on our path through life and death, but even the Christian God cannot stop an event. So we have solace, but we don't have a homeland. And even if we have faith in God, how can we have faith in our fellow men?
The True Believers in the Lie are happy destroyers. Tearing down every edifice that stands in the way of their utopian fantasies. Europe is committing suicide by not reproducing. The sexual revolution has millions upon millions of dead babies and grown men and women from diseases that flourished as a consequence. A whole generation has passed and now the feeble offspring who offer willing submission and blind obedience are the fruit of the rotten tree. I believe it when you point to 1968 as a time of Cosmic shift.
The time of sowing the wind was almost 50 years ago, and now, it is time to reap the whirlwind.
Myself, Tiberge, I have been undergoing a Cosmic shift in my faith. I was raised in a hate-filled cult that taught its members that they were the only saved Christians going to heaven, all others in denominations were damned to hellfires of eternity. My brother and father still attend this church. Although I left it a long time ago, its wretched teachings had sunk so deeply into my psyche that I had to actually research the history of this cult to make sense of my spiritual dissatisfaction. All I can say is wow.
I don't know what faith most of your readers or you profess, but I am converting to catholicism. Yep. Roman Catholicism. Here's why:
When I was at my lowest, I discovered the writings of Thomas a Kempis. I discovered the writings of St. Augustin, and so many other profound Roman Catholic writers and early church fathers. Writings I was denied as a child, I discovered them like a thirsty man in a desert discovers cold spring water in the midst of a fiery blast.
The more I read, and pray, the more I am convinced that I am making the right choice.
The Catholic Church may well be infested with homosexuals, lesbians, Marxists and traitors, but so are a lot of mainstream Protestant denominations.
Where God is in all this, I don't know, but I am excited to find out. We do indeed, dear Tiberge, live in very momentous times.
I am sick of the lies, at the national level, the state level and the county/city level. The glory of multiculturalism and diversity - all lies. Islam is peace, Christianity is evil. Everyone wants the same thing. All lies. It all has to end badly. I am just not sure it will end in my lifetime. It's like living in a trainwreck in slow motion, taking decades before coming to a rest at the bottom of the cliff.
tiberge
- A new Hanseatic era?
Here's a professor with a particular idea. He is discussing the possibility of a new Hanseatic era.
"Meinander believes that if a new form of EU cooperation, limited to the area around the Baltic Sea goes ahead, future historians will point to clear reasons as to why it came about. One such reason, he argues, is the inability of nations in northern Europe to understand those in Latin Europe.
The model formulated for a new "Hanseatic League" assumes that France is not included.
"As long as France is in, we have the current EU. France's only chance of standing up to Germany is to have southern Europe behind it," Professor Meinander."
Interesting idea.
tiberge
Did you have the time to notice this one?
http://plus.lefigaro.fr/article/le-mississippi-pret-a-accueillir-les-francais-surtaxes-20120809-1107347/commentaires
Former Mayor of Mississippi, Haley Barbour, with French ancestors, is ready to welcome wealthy French fleeing 75% taxing promised by Normal The First.
@ anonymous 5:10
Yes. I'm aware of it. Readers have been sending me links. I'll do a post ASAP. It has been steamy and sweltering on the East Coast. My energy level has been very low, but I'll get back to posting soon.
"What happened after 1968 that set into motion a precipitous decline?"
-tiberge
It didn't happen in 1968. It happened in 1789. We are looking at the ramifications of the French Revolution: feminism, the belief in equality and rights, and the dechristianisation of nations all have their beginnings here.
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