Carl Sagan on Finding out the Truth

 

Are we being Bamboozled to Identify with the Aggressor?

 

 

This day, I'm pondering one of the insightful quotes from Carl Sagan, which is:

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

And this also reminds me of a post from a Facebook friend who said:  
"It's interesting how some allow jealousness and envy to affect their loyalty".

In psychology these behavior patterns are known as "Identification with the Aggressor or Stockholm Syndrome" ... where a person adopts the perspective or behavior patterns of a captor or abuser.

I'm beginning to ponder, are some of the political leaders using this psychology toward acquiring more followers and then turning them in to mad and mindless zombies......