s- I feel that in some small way I am being lied to, but I don't quite know why. I used to feel stronger about this but now I realize that it doesn't make any difference; whether we are being lied to or not, we still have to get to work and pay the bills. I- Of course, if you alone found out what the lie was, you are right, it wouldn't make any difference. But, if you all suspected you were being lied to, and found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed. True. Then this is what we must hope for. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------I- The people of Germany, during WWII were held captive by a story, a story in which the Aryan race had been deprived of their rightful place in the world, bound, spat upon, raped, and ground into the dirt under the heels of mongrel races. Of course there were people in Germany who recognized the story as rank mythology, and saw that the people were captivated by a tale which gathered its strength through not only through the ordinary means of propaganda but by an intensive program of education of the young and reeducation of the old. Even if you weren't personally captivated by the story, you were made captive like an animal being swept along in a stampede of others who were willing to give their lives to make it a reality. I am telling you this because like the people of Nazi Germany, the people of your culture are captive to a story. You are unaware of the story because you know it by heart by the time you are six or seven; every Black and White, male and female, rich and poor, Christian and Jew, American and Russian. And you all hear it incessantly, because every medium of propaganda, every medium of education pours it out incessantly. And hearing it incessantly you don't listen to it, as if it were a faint humming in the background. Mother Culture, whose voice has been in your ear since the day of your birth, has given y...
