The "Noble Lie"

Money is what holds together a Social Structure based on lies

There is a concept in political science called "The Noble Lie” which states that it is acceptable for members of the elite to lie to the public as long at it it for the “greater good” of the social order, “myths used by political leaders seeking to maintain a cohesive society."

This has been a technique used by the elite from the time before Plato up to the present. There are many examples, but for brevity sake I will start from the recent past.

In the US the war between the North and South was not a “Civil War” but a “War of Secession” and it was fought for economic reasons. (“The War of Northern Aggression was about tariffs and northern economic imperialism. The North was protectionist. The South was free trade. The North wanted to finance its economic development by forcing the South to pay higher prices for manufactured goods. The North passed the Morrill Tariff which more than doubled the tariff rate to 32.6% and provided for a further hike to 47%. The tariff diverted the South’s profits on its agricultural exports to the coffers of Northern industrialists and manufacturers. The tariff was designed to redirect the South’s expenditures on manufactured goods from England to the higher cost goods produced in the North.”) Lincoln did not believe blacks were equal to whites and did not oppose slavery (Debating Sen. Stephen Douglas, Lincoln said, “I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes nor of qualifying them to hold office nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races, which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.), yet, the popular myth promotes him as a defender of human rights and liberator of the slaves.

The myth about WWI blames the German militarism for the horrors of that conflagration. For a 100 years we've been told thus and it is now an unquestioned “truth”, yet, a new study of the facts show the truth to be the exact opposite. “Men who saw the rapidly developing economic, commercial and industrial power of Germany as a threat”. (If you are sympathetic to the view that Germany was responsible for the war and that Britain and her allies fought for the noble cause of saving civilization from German tyranny, we invite you to consider the possibility that you have been misled. We too were once convinced of Germany’s guilt, but having studied the war in minute detail for many years are now firmly of the opinion, and confident we can prove to you, that it was not Germany to blame, but a secret coterie of immensely wealthy upper-class men in Britain. Men who saw the rapidly developing economic, commercial and industrial power of Germany as a threat to their secret plan to bring the entire civilized world under the control of the British Empire.)

Our entry (USA) into WWII is also a myth that is continuously promoted by our social elite. FDR knew it and the military chain of command did also. (Comprehensive research has shown not only that Washington knew in advance of the attack, but that it deliberately withheld its foreknowledge from our commanders in Hawaii in the hope that the "surprise" attack would catapult the U.S. into World War II. Oliver Lyttleton, British Minister of Production, stated in 1944: "Japan was provoked into attacking America at Pearl Harbor. It is a travesty of history to say that America was forced into the war.)

After WWII George Kennan, considered one of the architects of post war foreign policy, proposed that we should dispense with any sentimentality and unrealistic goals as “human rights and democratization”. That the US should only make alliances that will insure the maintenance of “our” wealth. (From 0:56 to 1:59 “with 50% of the world's wealth but only 6% of it's population we, can not fail to be the object of envy and resentment our real task is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity to do so we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and daydreaming, we should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights the raising of the living standard and democratization we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are hampered by idealistic slogans the better.” (Sorry, I can only send you to a segment of my own production since the video has been removed from YouTube)) Although Kennan was speaking about South East Asia specifically, subsequent actions from the US government have shown that the establishment took him at his word, as demonstrated by the number of covert actions since the war, and alliances with wholly undemocratic and totalitarian regimes around the world. This, of course, without being made explicit to the public at large. To us, we were always fighting for Democracy, Liberty, Human Rights, and so on and so forth.

This IS the “Noble Lie” in the USA.

(from Dictionary.com)

Noble       7. of an admirably high quality; notably superior; excellent.

Lie         1. a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.

“Noble Lie” has been used very effectively to compel the population into actions and support of what the elite want to carry out in the political sphere. However, it wasn't until the early 20th century that the “Noble Lie” entered into the realm of commerce becoming the industrial strength manipulator that we have at present. It has now become routine and accepted as normal to lie in order to promote a commercial product. It was Edward Bernays, among others, who promoted the use of new psychological principles developed by his uncle Sigmund Freud. Bernays wrote: “If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it?” (Propaganda by Edward Bernays, pg. 47) Apparently it is, since we have all become mindless consumers feeding the coffers of multi-national corporations.

This practice of lying has now spread to academia and science where results of experiments depend on who is funding them (The New England Journal of Medicine is not alone in featuring research sponsored in large part by drug companies — it has become a common practice that reflects the growing role of industry money in research.)

In my view all these lies revolve around the acquisition of money by the protagonists. It has nothing to do with the cohesion of the social order. The lies remain as “insider” knowledge. It is easy to surmise why the upper echelons of the elite would want to keep it hidden, but why would the middle rung people want to remain silent? Again, it is money. These middle rung individuals are the academics, administrators, scientists, editors, reporters, officers, etc. who facilitate the maintenance of such lies, and they risk their salaries, funding and all economic benefits that come with their position.

A case in point is the very factual and logical data presented by over 2,000 members of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, experts on the construction AND destruction of buildings, and Pilots for 9-11 Truth, professional experts in the aeronautical field, which demonstrates the impossibility of the official story of the event. These and several other similar organizations are studiously ignored by the mainstream media. This indicates that the Media is under the control of the elite and they are protecting the “Noble Lie” so that we can continue supporting whatever unstated agenda they are pursuing.

The lie is held from disclosure by the money that binds those who keep it secret.

My question then is, could there be an economic system designed where truth would be the most highly rewarded attribute?

The problem with fortresses built on sand is that they will come down as soon as the tide comes in.  As for our present social structure, we can see that the tide of truth is rising everywhere, so we know what to expect.