Maybe forcing people to believe your lies, even after you admit you’re lying, is the purest form of power.
Rather, it seems to be about enforcing rules that make little to no sense, requiring conformity at the price of reason, drawing arbitrary lines in the sand and demanding people respect them, making people believe "Facts" that are provably untrue.
If you want to control people, you need to lie to them, that's the only way to guarantee you have power.
You can never control people with the truth, because the truth has an existence outside yourself that cannot be altered or directed.
True power lies in making people afraid of something that does not exist, and making them abandon reason in the name of protecting themselves from the invented threat.
To guarantee you have control, you must make people see things that are not there, make people live in a reality you build around them, and force people to follow arbitrary, contradictory rules that change day by day.
People being mind broken into being afraid of something they told isn't frightening, following rules they are told are not necessary, taking "Medicine" they are told does not work.
Maybe forcing people to believe your lies, even as you admit you are lying, is the purest expression of power.
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