Propaganda From Goebbels

The war between the truth and lies has been going on since the dawn of time. It is nothing new. We are confronted with lies constantly. Perhaps we do not pay attention to the consequences. Perhaps we are too busy to be bothered by the truth. Perhaps we are only interested in the truth when it influences us directly. Perhaps we are just busy people and we think:"hey, first things first." In spite of all of that, I still have not met anyone who likes to be lied to. In the long run, lying has unpleasant consequences. If you check your history, you will find that Joseph Goebbels was the the Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda for Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany. He was responsible for controlling the mass media. Did he not make a career out of lying? Or was it just propaganda for the "public enlightenment."? Goebbels clearly stated the following: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”