And it’s whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter— “Stairway to Heaven“, Written by Robert Plant and Jimmy Page for Led Zeppelin’s fourth album (untitled) recorded in November, 1970, released in 1971.
The Mythology of Economics
Many people know that our great trusted rulers routinely lie to us and deceive us – always “in the national interest”, obviously. The clearest single proof of this that nearly everyone is familiar with is our rulers’ obsession with secrecy – the routine classification of government documents that prevents the public from knowing what their governments are really up to – at times when full disclosure of that information would be most useful. Those great heroes who try to reveal government secrets, at inopportune times, are brutally dealt with by our great trusted leaders – as Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden (to name but a few) could easily verify. But the maintenance of great secrecy is not the only hard proof of the deceit of those we trust to lead us.
Another well-known tool is the manipulation of the media. Once again many people know the mainstream media cannot be trusted to tell the truth. Fine books are available detailing the proof – Knightley’s First Casualty, for example, or Edwards and Cromwell’s Guardians of Power, or the classic Manufacturing Consent by…