“A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of the truth.
Indeed, scientists have shown that people will go to absurd lengths – and engage in mental gymnastics – in order to cling to their belief in what those in authority have said.
Part of the reason so many are so vulnerable to naive belief in authority is that we evolved in small tribes … and we assume that the super-elites are just like us.
In reality, there are millions of psychopaths in the world … and they are largely running D.C. and on Wall Street.
These people have no hesitation in lying to promote their goals.
The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs told Morley Safer of 60 Minutes and CBS News:
Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you’re stupid. Did you hear that? — stupid.
And studies show that the super-rich lie, cheat and steal more than the rest of us.
Who’s to Blame … Big Government or Big Business?
Conservatives tend to believe that the captains of industry are virtuous and that the government can’t be trusted.
Liberals tend to believe that government servants are virtuous and that corporations can’t be trusted.
But the truth is that psychopaths are psychopaths … whether they’re in the private sector or government….”
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“Conservatives tend to believe that the captains of industry are virtuous and that the government can’t be trusted.”
Except the government “psychopaths” have tanks and drones and won’t hesitate to use them in order to keep their power, where as with private sector the people can often keep the “psychopaths” in check by not funding them via buying their products, doing business with them, and where possible, competing with them through entrepreneurship…
At least until the public sector “psychopath” is given the power to enable the private sector to abuse the court system, corporate lawyers and special interest groups to suppress competition while simultaneously not preparing the masses via the school system to be entrepreneurial and financially literate.
This conservative does NOT believe that.
Big government and big business are nearly synonymous these days.
One in the same with the exception of the military……but remember that big biz makes all that stuff….