“History is always written the winners” Dan Brown
It is in our nature to follow rather than lead. It is in our nature to believe rather than to question.
If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t be so easy to propagandize.
And in the modern world, humans are constantly propagandized.
Propagandized to buy, to believe, to escape, to be lead.
It is in our nature to believe we are the good guys. Individually we constantly tell ourselves in our own head that we are a good person. That our family, our tribe, our community, our country, our gender, are the good ones.
That bias is leveraged.
Smart phones have turned peer pressure into a propaganda atom bomb that never stops detonating.
What feels better than being right? Especially when life can make us feel so wrong sometimes.
So when a war is waged, of course we’re the good guys. What did the other side do? Why? War is the only answer?
Where does the money for war come from? What else could that money be used on? Who makes money during a war?
Money can be made during a war? Is that a good thing. Of course, because we’re the good guys.
But if we’re the good guys, descendants of the winners of all the previous wars, then these questions are moot, unpatriotic, and weak. And we can’t have that, what if our enemies found out?
Luckily for us, we’re the good guys.
It’s the good guys in charge.
It’s the good guys dropping bombs.
It’s the good guys selling weapons.
It’s the good guys controlling the media.
It’s the good guys running the economy.
Because if they’re not good, what does that mean about us?
