Misinformation Exhaustion
The good must associate
“The common people are always impressed by appearances and results.” — Nicolo Machiavelli
The world has a fascination with megalomaniacs.
Men (yes, it is always men) who have accumulated power and enjoy wielding it, treat the world as their sandbox, with toy soldiers waiting to do their bidding.
“You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war,” William Randolph Hearst told artist Frederic Remington, who was his man in Havana in 1897.
Hearst, the powerful publisher of major U.S. newspapers such as the New York Journal and San Francisco Examiner, was pushing to free Cuba from Spanish control, and he knew that public opinion could be swayed by the press.
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