You have heard it said, “Believe the opposite of whatever the government says.” Many think of this statement as humorous, but as something that seems strangely and inexplicably true. This truth of this maxim is actually a demonstrable fact.
The free market assesses desires and needs. It then provides voluntary solutions in a very efficient manner. The state, utilizing coercive funding methods, has to push something that is not needed; something that people won’t pay for voluntarily. Those who most effectively push the theft-funded goods and services are rewarded with promotions and more tax funding for their projects. The thought process in the mind of a court intellectual works like this:
I need to get tax funding. If the item or service I suggest is actually needed or desired, the free market would provide it and do so much more efficiently than the state. I need to find something that the market would not provide so that I can deploy the coercive apparatus of the state to bring it into being.
So, the best court intellectuals–the ones that win out in the evil anti-market for the best lies–find something that is not needed and convince others through scare tactics or complex pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo that it is needed. The scare-mongering or other form of lying becomes the tool to sell the unneeded good or service.
The market for lies encompasses a highly competitive process. When a manager in the state apparatus is trying to raise his personal capital, there is a mental exercise he must go through. He muses, “I need to create a project or a service that will attract more attention than those presented by other state functionaries.”
Producing the “better mousetrap” in the state sense means producing and selling a bigger whopper that will equal or top the other whoppers flowing through the state system competing for graft. There is stiff competition to concoct the bigger more convincing deception in the market for lies. The projects that win out are the result of this refining process. They will roll out of the state think tanks and debut with appropriate fanfare. They arrive in two parts: A carefully articulated “problem” and a polished somewhat plausible “solution” that addresses the problem for the benefit of mankind. The roll-out often contains an addendum explaining why force is needed and why the market of voluntary actors cannot accomplish the “crucial” objective of the project.
The fake science or false threat may take years to uncover. By then, the liars will have anticipated an end to the gravy train and will have perfected a new lie to replace the old discredited rubbish. So, there is actually a group of people working to assess the truth in order to defy it. You can use their efforts to your advantage if you realize they must lie. They have allowed you to test what is true in many areas. They are assessing the truth and then crafting stories to bring something into existence that can only exist in the world of robbers, thieves, and con artists. They are perfecting the science of lying. If you merely look at the sphere of activity adopted by the state, you know that the truth lies outside that sphere. The maxim “believe the opposite” is correct. Occasionally, operatives in the state apparatus seem to speak some truth, but their words merely provide cover for the biggest lie, the supposed morality of the plunder-funding for the operatives themselves.
If a proposed state service were to be really desired by people, it would be provided by the market at a price that represents its value. If a bureaucrat, per chance, conceives of something that is really desired by his fellow man, then he himself can sidetrack that idea from the machinery of theft and deception and produce it and profit by providing it through the free market. At that point, it is no longer in the realm of state action. He realizes that if he tries to provide that truly desired good or service through the state apparatus, some free market participant will co-opt the idea and provide it more efficiently without the need for the state’s coercive apparatus–which also lacks price signals to implement the idea effectively.
So, the state functionary must find things that aren’t needed; or, something that the free market can be barred from providing by monopolizing and coercive state regulatory action. Either way, the free market is not a competitor with the state actor’s methodology and fraud is the basis for the state’s action.
All proposals exiting the state’s philosophical pipeline which, of necessity, demand a coercive solution must be based on lies. They must articulate (incorrectly) a failure in the free market. Over time, it will become apparent that the state’s proposals and data to support the proposals are fraudulent. So, the state continually needs new evolving faulty research and new contrived intellectual support to validate the lies. All of these intellectual outcomes are paid for or forced into existence by the coercive apparatus of the state. Media and academic functionaries are rewarded and punished based on the extent that they comply with the fraud validation process for state action. Media and academic outlets may choose to seek the financial rewards offered by providing pseudo-intellectual support for either the left or right maw of the two-headed beast.
It is a refining process. Proposals that are too far-fetched and too hard to sell or too subtle and not scary enough may not generate enough angst with the public to generate at least a tolerant reaction with voters and taxpayers.
Sometimes the scare tactic is simple and involves a portrayal of neighbors as brutes and thieves. Relief is offered from the induced hysteria via an imbedded plunder-funded solution promising a shield from the contrived monsters.
Some proposals use the tactic of grandiosity or intellectual complexity in an effort to bamboozle the public and to create the illusion that there is a need for the bogus service. It is an evolving process. The practitioners must take into account mankind’s historical knowledge of former evil tactics of statecraft when concocting new things that people may fall for in the current era. The demonic artisans consider ways to bewitch the public and muddy the water by trotting out mystifying concepts that can be sold as strange scientific, cultural, economic, or social phenomena that supposedly cannot be solved by the free market and require the coercion of the state.
The more complex mechanisms of fear-peddling may involve such things as inflammatory descriptions of people that are different from you in that they possess some unique dastardly trait/s; exposés of the “evils” of the free market; speculations and predictions of the scary outcomes of run-amok scientific phenomena; or offers of political protection proffered by the self-described “good” elements of the thieving state to offer a buffer from the “evil” opposing elements within the same thieving state. Force-funded action is always part of the panacea.
The free market represents the forces of truth and good working ceaselessly in a voluntary manner to benefit all men. The participants in the market for lies work ceaselessly to find a phony bill of goods to be used to extract wealth from an unwary public. The cornerstone and chief proponent of that market for lies is the state.
The mainstream media facilitates the lying so as to retain access to the central fountain of lies. Consequently, the “believe the opposite” maxim largely holds true for large state-sanctioned media outlets as well. If the media voice is not pursuing preeminence in the market for lies, it will be frozen out of that market. The important function of theft facilitator will then be offered by the state to a media outlet that is more compliant and will facilitate and enhance the stream of lies. Errant media outlets will be gently corrected until they either get on board or prove themselves hopeless, at which point they will be cut off–for telling the truth.
For example, if the local paper says, “officer shoots motorist,” a spoken or procedural reprimand may be forthcoming from the police department informing the paper that this wording may promote anti-police sentiment. It is suggested verbally–or tangibly through future denial of story access–that the paper say “an officer-involved shooting has occurred” since this wording creates doubt as to the shooter and generates concern for the officer. The false doubt and concern should then be given closure later in the compliant article with the pronouncement, “no officers were injured in the incident.”
Good state-worshiping lap-dog media and academic outlets learn to anticipate this requirement for obeisance. They juice-up the adulation for the state on their own initiative and begin to manufacture and spew fraud-supporting sentiments from their own pens. They will often shamelessly produce skewed stories and data to preserve their romance with the revered professional deceivers and thieves. When the domiciled pets adequately display their adopted pathology by covering up embarrassing revelations and reverently filling in the gaps of the state’s story-line with supportive malarkey, they are rewarded with more complete access and juicer stories that need the artistic sophistry of a compliant crony journalist. The most skilled of these media vermin also strive to impress their masters by intentionally misquoting the truth-tellers and berating them on those moments when they stumble or stutter.
It is clear that the state is the central proponent, practitioner, and curator for the market of lies. Many have learned the art of lying from the state’s schools, from state employment, or from the state’s political machine and continue to publicly validate it. They consider it to be part of a secret rite of passage into informed adulthood.
We are no longer innocent as when we were children. As adults, we now know that our grand society requires us (lest we be outcasts as part of the remnant of truth-tellers) to display a reverence for lies. We will be viewed as noble if we shout allegiance to the father of lies.
And then there is this:
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. – John 8:44.
