Painting an attractive rosy picture to make the masses accept a bitter pill is an age-old deception technique. How many of us were fed food as toddlers …show more content…
Every single one of us is a perpetrator of deception whether knowingly or unknowingly. As the common saying goes “everyone has a price.” Making it clear that if pushed far enough even the righteous will choose unsavory paths to get where they want to go. Deception is the art of deliberately making someone believe something that is not true. “Truth” is a matter of perception as discussed previously in class. Since there is no one truth then the deception itself may be viewed as a truth to an unsuspecting person and because the person truly believes what he has been told it becomes the truth. It is true all that we know and are exposed to is propaganda. Propaganda is the first and most lethal weapon in mass deception. It can brainwash an entire generation. For example, the children who studied in Germany during Hitler’s rule would fundamentally have a stigma against Jews. Not because they are cruel or have horrible characters or are inhumane but only because they were trained and educated to do so. Education in the wrong hands can be disastrous. So, who is to say that what our education system is teaching us is not teaching us similar things? Our own education system is not viewed as such because every country is doing the same. “History is written by the winners.” So, is knowing the truth and passing on the half-truth deception? Of course, it is. Just because you