The line about duplicity resting upon apparent frankness could be from the 1600s. Which was also a time of a seemingly endless experiment in authoritarian government. Eventually, arbitrary intrusion backed by force was seen as stupid. The term “Tyrannical Duncery” was crafted and well understood. However, this article reviews that today’s experiment is fronted by a number of slogans, many false. Resulting in justifiably scornful descriptions.
The past has recorded legends about prosperous villages that were fake called “Potemkin Villages”. Today there is “Fake News” as well as too many ambitious promotions about weather, climate and the environment. Unfortunately, the latter is being used as a front for another experiment in intrusive bureaucracy. To be blunt, communism is being pitched as an attractive “green” movement fronting an inner “red” drive to control everything.
