“The Bad War”
December 10, 2016
FROM the introduction to M.S. King’s book “The Bad War: The Truth Never Told about World War II,” a a 246-page book that will probably challenge most of what you think on the subject and would make a good gift for the open-minded few:
During the 75 years which have now passed since the end of the grand history-altering event known as World War II (aka “The Good War”), only a single narrative of the great conflict has been heard. It is a story which, as is always the case, has been scripted by the victors and implanted, no, pounded, into the minds of all subsequent generations. Every medium of mass indoctrination has been harnessed to the task of training the obedient masses as to what the proper view of this event should be.
Academia, news media, public education, book publishing, TV documentaries, Hollywood films, clergymen and politicians of every stripe all sing the same dreadful anthem. You know the familiar lyrics: “Germany, Italy and Japan tried to enslave the planet. The “good guys” of the “world community” banded together and stopped them; but not before millions were killed in Hitler’s gas chambers.”
Literally, not a day seems to pass without some sort of media reference to this simplistic goofball narrative; a silly children’s fable which oh-so-conveniently ignores the previous decades of critical history leading up to World War II, omits vital information from the actual war years, and outright fabricates lie after lie after lie. Indeed, the “official story” amounts to a manufactured mendacity of such mountainous dimensions that the human mind will have a hard time processing the actual truth of the grand event, no matter how compelling the case may be.
Because the moronic mantra is never questioned, the public mind quite naturally assumes it to be an indisputable truth, on par with the belief in 2 + 2 = 4. That is what differentiates mythology from an ordinary lie. Whereas a lie can be dispelled in a matter of minutes, or days at the most; myths can take 100 years, or more, to kill.
Author Dresden James describes the group psychology at play:
“A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.”
A fair warning; if you can’t handle the emotional discomfort and intellectual humbling of having your fossilized worldview turned upside-down and inside-out by the pent-up truth volcano that is The Bad War, you may want to put this book down now and just walk away. Because once you start to dig into the critical data points of World War II, be assured that you’ll not be able to refute the self-evident conclusions which logically flow from those facts – unless, of course, if you’re insane.
Myths die hard; as does the human ego.
— Comments —
Terry Morris writes:
“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.”
I can personally confirm the truth of that statement. As William James once famously said, “There is nothing so absurd than when you repeat something often enough people begin to believe it.”
I have a close relative – a first cousin – who is very right wing and styles himself an “ultra-conservative.” Some few months back I mentioned to him that he should take a closer look at the evidence from the “Good War” and re-evaluate his stance. His immediate response was that “I have seen every documentary ever made about Nazi Germany; I don’t need to study it any closer!” Quite.
Which Pope was it who denounced Americanism? Whoever he was he was right! Americanism has this effect over the minds of Americans – we tend to be very confident in our understanding of historical events based solely on what we’re told we should believe.
Laura writes:
It was Pope Leo XIII in his apostolic letter, Testem Benevolentiae of 1899. More here.
Anti-Globalist Expatriate writes:
I strongly recommend Pat Buchanan’s Churchill’s War, followed by American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character by Diana West, Freedom Betrayed by President Herbert Hoover, and Stalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government by M. Stanton Evans.
Paul C. writes:
This is pure nonsense based on the link. It is the idea that the allies caused Hitler to engage in a massive war. For crying out loud, Germany had already annexed the Sudetenland (part of Czechoslovakia) and Austria. I am open-minded, but I won’t read nonsense based on my knowledge of military history. Hitler was a clever megalomaniac who used diplomacy to lure dopes into subjugation. He never intended to adhere to his treaties.
