Humanity hates honesty/truth. 80% of us are theists FFS. Feels over reals. You need only sell them a flimsy dream to win their support. Tell them they’re special. Deny all wrong doing, they’ll look the other way. Even if it reeks of bullshit that’s still preferred over reality for a lot of people.
There are limits to this of course but apparently it takes an extreme amount of personal suffering to wake people who fall for stuff like this. Even then, there are still some amount of old days loyalists amongst the survivors of any given ruined empire.
Humanity hates honesty/truth. 80% of us are theists FFS. Feels over reals. You need only sell them a flimsy dream to win their support. Tell them they’re special. Deny all wrong doing, they’ll look the other way. Even if it reeks of bullshit that’s still preferred over reality for a lot of people.
There are limits to this of course but apparently it takes an extreme amount of personal suffering to wake people who fall for stuff like this. Even then, there are still some amount of old days loyalists amongst the survivors of any given ruined empire.