It is difficult, if not impossible, to understand politics and government without considering an H.L. Mencken quote: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
Looking at “problems” like Global Warming, The Ozone Hole, Global Freezing, and the hundreds of “scary things” that we are told about every day, and understanding that they are “imaginary hobgoblins” designed to increase the power of others over us, helps us see that those who propagate them fall into those described by Mark Twain:
“It’s hard to get a man to see the truth about something if his job depends on not understanding it.”
Few people are willing to give up a soft, cushy job for the truth, and unemployment is what happens to anyone who does dare to tell the truth about any of the “imaginary hobgoblins” that is the basis for his, or his superiors’ job.
We may relate careers based on lies to The Book of Revelations. When we do, it’s hard not to conclude that “The Mark of the Beast” is written in the souls of those who tell lies for money. In every generation, they are among those “branded with The Mark of the Beast”. We are assured that those who have accepted the brand will not be allowed into Heaven.
