I came to learn recently that the “Big Lie” is a propaganda technique developed by Josef Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, and Adolph Hitler in the 1920’s. Hitler in his autobiography "Mein Kampf" (MY Struggle) defined the Big Lie as a lie which is so BIG that no one would believe that anybody would distort the truth "so infamously". It seems that Hitler was a master of manipulating the minds of large numbers of people. Hitler believed that if you tell a simple lie, people who know the truth will easily reject it. But if you tell a huge, huge BIG lie that is absurdly false people will believe it because it would be too absurd or impossible for you to have told such a BIG lie!
It seems the only way to counter a Big Lie propaganda is to tell the Big Truth many more times than your opponents can tell the Big Lies. Someone told me there are many Big Lies recently in the politically motivated alternative media, but I am still waiting for the Big Truths which should counter the Big Lies.
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