“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”
Within today’s population it is estimated that over 50% of those living are under the age of 30. When you consider that every day that number will continue to increase you can certainly see the potential truth in the above quote. Whoever has the power of youth behind their decisions and intentions will no doubt be able to accomplish much in this world.
We notice how everyday commercial firms attempt to influence the minds of the young into whatever product, service, or venture that they wish to promote. We also see how governmental organizations will focus their attention on the younger population to obtain the “majority” of supporters. This hasn’t changed for decades. The youth will continue to be a major motivating force within world dynamics.
“The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.”
The vast majority of the world’s population will be swayed by the prolific flow of words of promise than they will be by an invading army. It has been demonstrated over and over that those who will voice (or pen) the winsome words that the vast majority “want” to hear can be persuaded to follow those who have the implication of promise in their speech, regardless of any true intentions of bringing those promises to fruition.
Empires and great nations have been toppled by the speeches of powerful men in the past and will no doubt be victim to the same means of destruction in the future. The power and boldness of the spoken word can never be overlooked nor taken lightly.
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” “The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.”
This has always been the case with humans. If the winsome words that are being spoken are all false, the only way to have people accept them is to make sure that the lie is SO BIG that it would make most people feel that it MUST be true or why would anyone say something so ridicules?
Any yet look at people around us today. Some are so desirous a change, wanting their circumstances to improve; they are willing to believe whatever is told to them. Those in politics make their living doing this. They promise whatever the people want to hear knowing most often they are not going to be able to deliver what has been offered. Think about it: How can you get better roads, better schools, better fire and police protection, better military facilities and staff and NOT raise taxes? How do people think these things are going to be paid?
“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.”
Propaganda: The spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person is only going to be accepted if the people can understand what is being told to them. This doesn’t differentiate between what are “ideas” or “information” intent on “helping” the institution, cause, or person from that which is a “rumor” that has the purpose of “injuring” an institution, cause, or person.
Whichever the case may be the propaganda must be grasped by the “least intelligent” of those to whom it is intended to affect. This will aid tremendously with it being accepted and acted upon as was its intended purpose.
“The day of individual happiness has passed.”
Today it is very difficult to find someone that is truly happy. Varying situations and conditions exist that work to produce just the opposite within individuals. Even the attempts by governmental authorities to improve the conditions of their constituents is lacking in providing real happiness to those that they serve. The time of people going to bed happy and satisfied with the way things are has surely become a thing of the past.
“I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.”
It seems that very few put their real trust in God. However, when their actions come under question they become very religious people. Some would even agree with the quote shown above and apply it to their own actions. They truly conceive within their own minds that their actions are “in accordance with the will of God”! Yet they commit serious atrocities against humankind and contribute to the devaluing of human life. It’s almost unbelievable that they can think this way but sadly they do! However they may reply:
“Who says I am not under the special protection of God?”
The rants of a mad man will always include the inevitable “fact” that he will claim that he is within his rights to conduct himself the way he does because “God is on” his side of any of the issues that are being brought forth.
Beyond all logical thinking the “conquer” will proclaim that all his actions are due to his being motivated to do the will of God. Or that he views himself as the “instrument” that God is using to accomplish His will here upon this Earth. And why shouldn’t he view himself this way when he feels that by his superior intellect he will prove himself to be right in all he does!
“It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.”
Regardless of what a person has been taught he or she can be made to believe something entirely different by means of clever persuasion of the contrived falsehoods of man. Against all reasonable logic a man can be made to think outlandish thoughts within his mind. And he can be convinced to put these thoughts into actions that reflect a lack of sensible thinking by any reasonable individual. And how could one reasoning in such a manner be able to get away with the atrocities that would be committed because of his preposterous thinking and his manipulation of humankind that is gullible enough to listen to his outrage?
“How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.”
Once an individual or group has decided that they will blindly follow the proposals of a mad man they have forsaken their own freedom of thought. They choose to allow the actions and the thinking of another to guide them into whatever path of destruction that will be brought upon them. They relinquish that valuable commodity of their right to think for themselves and place their future into the hands of those leading them. Many of them will do so without truly understanding where this “leader” is taking them.
I started by stating that we would look at the times in which we are living and at a possible future that we may have to face by giving up our right to free will and having others think for us. But in actuality ALL the quotes I included within this article were made by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.
“Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany’s Nazi Party, was one of the most powerful and notorious dictators of the 20th century. Hitler capitalized on economic woes, popular discontent and political infighting to take absolute power in Germany beginning in 1933. Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 led to the outbreak of World War II, and by 1941 Nazi forces had occupied much of Europe. Hitler’s virulent anti-Semitism and obsessive pursuit of Aryan supremacy fueled the murder of some 6 million Jews, along with other victims of the Holocaust. After the tide of war turned against him, Hitler committed suicide in a Berlin bunker in April 1945.” [www.history.com]
Could the world be heading for a similar situation in our times? Hopefully, men will have learned from history and will not allow such a thing to happen again. However, reconsider the quotes I have included above and you will note that they can very easily be applied to people, circumstances, and occurrences that are around us at this very moment. And as far as our “learning from history,” we mustn’t forget we’re only human!
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEM
"You should not have another man
tell you what YOUR opinion is."
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