why is it that no matter how many times and how many ways the ruling classes lie in the past, they are 'always' to viewed as credible in the present?

-- bree fisher (bbfishr@euronet.nl), August 08, 1999

Answers

"Trend Number One is, people aren't getting any smarter." -- Dogbert

Seriously though, I think it is because many (most?) people don't operate in the realm of reality anymore. They have a pleasant little picture in their minds of what they want reality to be, and they ignore everything that contradicts that picture. It's not pleasant to think that the people who have the power of (physical) life and death over you don't necessarily have your best interests at heart, so...

Y2k may prove to be the biggest "reality check" that we've had in a long, long time.

T.

-- Teresa May (tmay@computerage.net), August 08, 1999.

From: Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr (pic), near Monterey, California

The use of official textbooks and subjugation to teachers who grade our acceptance of the official story trains students for twelve or sixteen or more years to accept the official version of the "facts."

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage), October 08, 1999.