Absolutely right.
The most basic evil fundamental to Western decadence is mendacity.
The Americans trying to live in their nonexistent make-believe world cannot be honest with themselves--let alone anyone else.
American "journalism" is nothing but propaganda--replete with lies, distortions, half-truths, cover-ups. Truth for its own sake is not even a consideration. Its purpose is "molding public opinion"--a confession of mendacity.
And most Americans not only tolerate this but actually find joy and comfort in it.
Throughout the Western world, including the USA, people are abused for speaking the truth--often in deference to some "higher morality", as though there were a higher morality than truth--truth for its own sake.
The stupid will find joy and comfort in their delusions temporarily, but ultimately truth always smashes delusions and the results are not joyful.
Western Civilization began with sage tales of self-deception, delusion, denial, and hubris, leading inexorably to tragedy. If the Americans--and other Westerners--don't wake up soon to the realization that their highly seductive make-believe world is the same folly that brought down Oedipus and Jocasta et al., they will not be able to escape the fate that follows hubris and denial--and they will have no one to blame but themselves.
As you were typing your comment, I was typing comment 48 in the thread below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3067075/posts
We’re pretty much on the same wavelength.
Agree totally. Perhaps it is part of the human condition. Especially to people that have been blessed with the abundance, in life, as we have.
This thread has taken some very interesting and quite prophetic turns.