“A lie repeated often enough, eventually gains acceptance”-Josef Goebbels. What does this quote mean to you? Well, I think this quote means that things that are m`ade up and not the truth can become socially accepted so people think this is the truth. Growing up my mom taught me and my brother to never make up rumors because rumors can eventually become the “truth” although it is not really truthful people start to think it is. Take propaganda for example, people make up lies but once a lie is told enough that lie becomes the “truth”. Our society today has changed much from what it was like 50 years ago. People are taking and using propaganda to damage other people more than ever in the past. Some people don't understand the dangers of propaganda.
Social media has consumed people in society and compelled them to change from their true selves. People see an ad or a picture on social media of a famous actor or singer doing something they believe in and this can affect their choices. Sometimes people can change what they believe just because someone else does it. They believe that what the famous actor or singer is doing or saying is more important than what they really believe. This was also happening in Orwell’s novel. People were deceived and, like robots, were
“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
A benevolent lie is when someone tells a lie, but not with the intentions of harming anyone in the process but to help the person to whom it is told. This type of lie is better known as the harmless little white lie. After reading chapter three I have concluded that to many unconscious benevolent lies are told at my house. Learning about this topic pointed out how often it happens without notice, for example my little girl just lost her front teeth and asked me if she will look pretty for her school pictures. My reply was “You’re going to be the most beautiful girl in the world!” Which she is beautiful to me no matter what but not to the world. I have told her the tooth fairy is real leaving money under her pillow in exchange for each tooth she loses. Also guilt for the story about Santa and how he gives presents when she’s been good or no presents if she’s been bad that year. This benevolent lie is to benefit me I guess to threaten her when she misbehaves. Another example is my second born goes around saying she is my favorite child so, I just agree that she is my favorite child but not to tell her sisters so their feeling won’t get hurt. They’re all my favorite in their own special little way not just her. These benevolent lies just keep coming. This one my oldest daughter had a pet fish that she cared for. The fish recently died so I had to replace it before she came home. She noticed it looked a little different and asked if I noticed anything dissimilar. I replied, “No
If you and I make sure that we are honest in the small things, then we can be sure that we will be honest in the big things. If people know that they can trust us in small things, they will know that they can trust us in the big things
The worlds system in its late stages of falling apart will always perpetuate itself in that direction. We have allowed ourselves to be drawn into such a darkened state of confusion we cannot even see the light of day. The world we live in is without fear and understanding of consequences in its manufactured sins, we are
Alice Munro gives a good example of the meaning of this in her story "How I Met My Husband". The theme of this story is under certain circumstances people can sometimes be blind to the truth.
One of the reasons propaganda has such power is because of it, in a way, brainwashes people to believe something over the other. People can easily use propaganda to control people or convince them to believe that they are correct even if they were talking complete nonsense. Document
Propaganda takes many forms, the most aggressive example in society is political campaigning for powers in office. A prominent
A lie is considered a false statement given to fool someone. At some point throughout the day everyone will stretch the truth. Are lies just really some version of the truth or are they bold and deliberate? Lying is discussed in-depth in "The Ways We Lie" by Stephanie Ericsson and in the article "Is Lying Bad for Us" by Richard Gunderman. The two articles discuss the types of lies, reasons people lie and the consequences suffered by all. It can be determined after reading the texts that lying causes undue stress and telling the truth is beneficial in more ways than one.
I Agree with this quotation because it is very true, you can't determine a persons character by who they are when everyone is watching. Obviously everyone is watching so they are going to try to be a better person than they truly are. but when they're by themselves or "in the dark" they are going to be them true self because nobody is watching so if they make a mistake they can just say that it didn't happen because nobody was there to see it
That “if you develop the absolute sense of certainty… you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything…” Developing this sense of certainty is important, but usually only for the smaller decisions/actions in life, like being certain about how to do question five on that math test. But for the larger decisions/actions, the ones that really matter, everyone should entertain their certainty with some doubt. I like to think that using that measure of doubt to rationalize my opinions and decisions stops me from saying or doing anything without knowledge of the potential consequences. For example, I was hanging out with my friends, and we started gossiping. Sooner or later one rumor came up about a girl in our friend group. Some of my friends believed the rumor as soon as they heard it, and most likely kept on spreading it around the school. But I had some doubts about the story, so to be safe, I didn’t talk about it to anyone else. And it turned out that the rumor was completely false. By using doubt to rationalize a situation/decision, one can be certain that they did the right
“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” This was a quote by Adolf Hitler one of the most powerful dictators in all of history. He aided in the horrible genocide of over six million Jewish people. Someone like Hitler could happen again because it is happening in some areas of the world already, there are people who have a hatred of others, and because many people are not willing to stand up and only care about themselves. First, Hitler could happen again because genocides are happening in other areas right now.
The use of propaganda and double-speaking have a long history, going back to the ancient societies. Propaganda and doublespeak are the use of verbal exchange to have an effect on the emotions, attitudes, and opinions of human beings. To try to get them to accept a particular political, religious, or financial point of view, or even to start a war. It is careful manipulation of the opinions of the societies mostly by their government. In the effort to control the nation 's thought process, the government has stemmed to using mass propaganda for selling a war.
People have been like sheep under wrongful and deceptive shepherds and it will continue to be like this whether we like it or not. We have been a species of conflicts and war, and it would have only been a matter of time for someone to master the skill of artifice to persuade the masses to favor their agenda. Humanity is more productive when we all agree to something, and the use of artifice can influence the way we all think. This expertise can be wielded by those who are good or bad. This can be frightening when that skill is mastered by those who intend to utilise it for deceptive purposes. Because of the manipulation of artifice, it demonstrates that it is a vital skill to acquire. Its influence on recent history and its continuation in our present day is known by
"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."