“Defence industry analyst & consultant specialising in Land Warfare. Former British Army infantry officer. UK advisor to KNDS.”:
“Defence industry analyst & consultant specialising in Land Warfare. Former British Army infantry officer. UK advisor to KNDS.”:
It used to be that people couldn’t understand how an entire nation could become so collectively psychopathic as Nazi Germany. Now i’m asking myself how has any nation at war ever managed not to get like this? It seems it’s much easier than we thought it was to condition an entire population to completely dehumanize their enemy as well as themselves…to become a suicidal death cult.
Few people ever openly think or talk about it, but mass/industrial psychology is absolutely one of the worst things we’ve created as a species. People I regularly talk to don’t even believe truth exists as a fundamental concept anymore.
That’s quite tragic. All the more so since, even though they may not want to admit it, in practice nobody can go through everyday life without believing in some form of objective truth.
When you go to cross the street, either there is a car coming or there isn’t. You’re not questioning the concept of truth when you see incoming traffic and (hopefully) choose not to walk into it.
So all that this talk of not believing in the concept of truth or objective reality is, is a way to rationalize their cognitive dissonance and their hypocrisy to make themselves feel better.
They know they’re believing lies but the lies make them feel good so they come up with this cope.