History is being revised even as it is written!

The American people are being deliberately tricked, by those who have something to gain by manipulating us with misleading appearances. As a result, we find ourselves in a new kind of surroundings, in which we can no longer always rely on the evidence of our senses to tell us what is real. Indeed, society is now governed by various groups that use deceptive means to gain and hold on to money and power. These insidious deceivers have permeated business, entertainment, politics, news, and religion. And their most important tool of deception is our society's primary source of revisionist truth, Mass Media, which allows them to create complex simulations that can trick people en masse. Our attempts to avoid confusion are also generating a new problem: We increasingly suspect the real and the authentic of being fake. We are thus witnessing one of the many ironies of the age of duplicity: Fakes are being mistaken for the real thing and the real thing is in danger of being mistaken for a fake. This points to one of the central principles of contemporary life: The ability to manipulate reality is a form of power and the inability to see through those manipulations is a form of powerlessness. Those who manipulate appearances, today, exercise power over those who are taken in by appearances.        

            Americans, glued to their television sets, or with noses buried in the newspaper, are exposed to hundreds of examples of subterfuge in an average day, which are fabricated in an effort to falsify their view of the world and control their behavior. All of the deceivers use some combination of the same techniques, relying on scripts, staged performances, "creative" narration, video editing and electronic image manipulation. And all end up telling stories that include the same elements described on other pages: most having no idea of the methods of ruse and artifice being employed against them. But here, an effort is made to lead people to believe that the story accurately depicts people and events. As a result, all end up profoundly falsifying what they portray, once again mixing faithful and manipulated images, and fact and fiction in seamless ways so that it can be hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. As these trends become more pronounced, we will need more people like this author who will take a principled stand against this duplicity. We also need educational institutions that teach children to see through these historical emandations.

            Fortunately, as revisionists and deceivers increase in number and influence, a learning process is taking place in which we are developing new ways to unmask this political shiftiness. One might say that humanity is involved in a game of catch up: every year they are becoming more convincing and every year, we are getting better at not being fooled. The same technology and human ingenuity that are causing revisionist confusion are also providing us with ways not to be fooled - for those willing to search for the truth behind appearances. The author sincerely believes that his work will be of monumental importance by giving the average American the necessary tools to detect deception and to insist on “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” Ivegotatheoryaboutthat.com