The movie, “A Few Good Men,” made it clear, “You can’t handle the truth!” Released just after the end of the Cold War in 1991, and as during many other times, there are some governmental secrets we citizens do not need to know.
But has this practice of misdirected truth to we simpletons, under the guise of “you can’t handle the truth,” gotten out of control? Have the Elites fooled themselves into thinking that they can lie to we simpletons about most everything?
Today, the Elites’ lies seem to have no bounds. With technological access and through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), how often the Elites mislead or lie to we, the ordinary citizens, is mind-numbing and shameful. The Eagle’s song, “Lyin’ Eyes,” is a too familiar refrain anytime the Elite Wokes or the Woke Town Criers, a.k.a. the liberal press, try to convince We the Citizens that what we see firsthand is not their lived, imagined, or desired truth; their Noble Lies.
Lies, for their causes, are props used to build out the stage for their grand illusions. “Reality is merely,” Albert Einstein observed, “an illusion.”
Illusions, disinformation, and deception are used in wars, geoeconomics, and to achieve or move forward political and social agendas. Some illusions are well justified, some are despised or vilified as quite ignoble causes.
More than two millennia ago, Sun Tzu, credited as the The Art of War author, said all warfare is based on deception. The invasion of Normandy or D-Day was a very justified cause and included a grand deception. For months before the landing, the Allies conducted a substantial military deception, the lies, codenamed Operation Bodyguard. This deception misled the Germans as to the date and location of the actual Allied landings, the Noble Illusion.
We should not be so surprised when the Elite Wokes continually use the art of deception to forward their political, social, and economic agendas. We must better question the Elites and continuously ask them, “why?” Is it simply that the Elite Wokes of today better storytellers than we, the pragmatic simpletons? Perhaps so.
The Wokes in Hollywood and through much of the arts, mainstream media, and big tech seemingly thrive on this art of deception. The Woke from their elite institutions embraced the art of deception into their psychological and sociological practices, supporting their Woke causes, perpetuating their Noble Illusions.
Like all great magicians, the Elite Woke are masters of deception and misdirection. They continually set the stage for what culminates in their grand Noble Illusion! Effect and method are central to a magician’s success. Movie directors, pick-pockets, Ponzi schemes, and Elite Wokes use these same methods to distort reality, to set up their illusions.
For today’s Elites, Noble Lies are the effect. Noble Cause the method leading to the Noble Illusion, those “Lyin’ Eyes.”
In my satirical book,” The Emperor’s Woke Clothes and the Elite Wokes Effect,” I highlight the Elite Wokes. They are the Nobles, telling their Noble Lies supporting their Noble Causes and culminating in their grand Noble Illusions. Sadly, the real-life examples of these Noble Lies, Causes, and Illusions happen too often.
These Noble Lies, Causes, and Illusions must be exposed by We the Citizens, We the People.
Let’s follow an all-too-common path the Elite Wokes use, leading to a Noble Illusion. The Elites use this well; this is a process of building the story, spreading the lies, and ending with a final and newly imagined reality.
A Cultural & Historical Illusion of the Elite Woke
The 1619 Project
The Noble Lies – the Setup
The effect is the setup. Described as an anthology of essays and poetry in 2019, the 18 essays were first penned in the New York Times Magazine and then expanded into a book. It was then nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction in the Poetry Genre. The essays became the Elite Woke’s new reality, their new truth.
The 1619 Project developed and provides educational materials, reading guides, unit plans, student work, and other resources to bring The 1619 Project into 4,500 K12 classrooms nationwide. They were created by the Pulitzer Center and the 1619 community of educators. The lies are set.
The Noble Cause – the Misdirect
The method is the misdirect. Widely distributed and endorsed by Elite Wokes to transform and reframe foundational elements of US History – NY Times and Pulitzer endorsed and promoted. A Presidential Executive Order signed, stating that our country is plagued by “systemic racism” and “deserves an ambitious whole-of-government equity agenda” to address this issue. US Department of Education embraced the 1619 Project to award millions of dollars in American history and civics education grants prioritizing the belief that America is systemically racist. The cause is headlined.
The Noble Illusion the Prize
2020 Pulitzer Prize winner for Commentary. The Noble Lies – effects, and the Noble Cause – method, were executed brilliantly. Culminating in the grand noble illusion; a Pulitzer Prize.
Noble Illusion vs. Reality
The American Revolution Institute refutes the primary claims of The 1619 Project and states that “The New York Times promotion of The 1619 Project has engaged a full-scale assault on the memory of the American Revolution, alleging—without foundation and over the objections of some of the country’s leading historians—that the aim of the Revolution was to perpetuate slavery. This is a central thesis of the “1619 Project.” An interpretation of American history as an unrelieved tale of racial oppression and criminal exploitation, conceived by Nikole Hannah-Jones, a journalist who demonstrates no acquaintance with scholarship and less regard for honesty.
What began as a series of essays in The New York Times Magazine was reconfigured as a series of lessons. They were to be distributed, free, to teachers anxious to help their students understand the protests and riots of the anxious summer of 2020. The editors of The New York Times, demonstrating no more regard for truth than Ms. Hannah-Jones, are working to make sure their pernicious falsehoods about the American Revolution get taught to students in every school in the country.
To learn more about the irresponsible treatment of the American Revolution in the “1619 Project,” read the three essays by the American Revolution Institute’s executive director outlining the project’s errors, tracing them to their discredited sources, and offering an alternative interpretation of the relationship between the Revolution, natural rights and the end of slavery, as well as a fourth essay exposing the basic flaw in the 1619 Project curriculum:”
- The American Revolution and the Foundations of Free Society
- What’s Wrong with “The Idea of America”?
- Slavery, Rights, and the Meaning of the American Revolution
- The Fatal Flaw of the 1619 Project Curriculum
The “1619 Project” distorts much more of American history than the American Revolution. For other critiques, see Eliot Kaufman, “The 1619 Project Gets Schooled,” Wall Street Journal, December 16, 2019, and Sean Wilentz, “A Matter of Facts,” The Atlantic, January 22, 2020