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Dr. David B. Collum - The Great Bamboozle: Shattering Denial & Facing the Truth

The Bitcoin Matrix

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Lessons from history - propaganda and truth

If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. Carl Sagan emphasized that once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. Propaganda aids self-deception, according to Eric Hoffer. St. Augustine of Hippo likened the truth to a lion, which can defend itself. Banksy mentioned that we die twice - first when we stop breathing and again when our name is no longer spoken.

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