There are charlatans, self-proclaimed gurus, and demagogues somewhere out there, today. They have been around before, and yet, for every rationalist out there in grave attempts to set records straight, they show no signs of disappearing. It’s been said that “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on”. Why? Are people just gullible? What are some of the tools one needs in order to put a spell on you? Ignorance is bliss, as they say. But, it seems that just about anybody can be fooled - at least, by someone . Ignorance can be played up perhaps because the audience has never experienced some far away place. It can be played up through an undeveloped grasp of history. It can be played up through many condescendingly daunting scientific words. Or, maybe, it can be played up through the audience simply being unaware of themselves. Imagine living in a time with no airplanes and you were perhaps some peasant who had not quite the means to...
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