I have begun to wonder if the unashamed bald-faced lie is increasingly acceptable in the public relations industry in the US. Simply another useful tactic pulled out as needed from the larger bag of public relations techniques.
Stated as aggressively and repetitively and shamelessly as possible - until it is widely accepted as truth.
The tactic seems to be becoming more widespread in industry, politics, and international relations.
Wars even get fought over such things.
But I don't suppose that that is really important.
People do what works.
Call it "spin" if you like. But often it seems to go much farther than just "spin."
The American public seems to have grown inured to this. What once might have engendered outrage now elicits a shrug. A yawn.
It's really no big deal.
I wonder if this is an increasingly American phenomenon, or if it is thoroughly internationalized.
Any thoughts on this from our foreign contingent?
Then again - perhaps things haven't really changed that much at all.
Just thinkin' out loud,
Epaminondas
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"The magnitude of a lie always contains a certain factor of credibility, since the great masses of people ... more easily fall victim to a big lie than a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big."
Mein Kampf
p. 231
A. Hitler
Houghton-Mifflin (1971)
