Lies and falsehoods are stealing our free will

The theft perpetrated by propaganda

Gustav Klim: What lies Within rendering by DALL-E

What lies within?

If you tell me John is bad and I trust you, my interaction with John will be predicated on what you told me. If the truth I have used my free will to avoid John. If a lie, I have been the victim of basing my decisions on John and this falsehood. If I then told three people John is not a good guy, I am stealing their free will. They tell three people and John killed himself some time later.

How many perpetrators are in this scenario? Who was to blame for Johns's suicide?

Now replace John with any media headline you have discovered is a falsehood, and when you discover it, what did you think and feel?

Exactly.

Do you know who invented peaceful non-compliance?

I will give you some clues

He recognised people were oppressed by slavery and had discovered a way of living in freedom from an oppressor. However, the slave owners were not ready to give up the power and esteem associated with the number of slaves and the material gains …