Spinning the Past, Threatening the Future

Political aphorisms don't get any more cogent: "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past."

George Orwell's famous observation goes a long way toward explaining why -- a full year after the invasion of Iraq -- the media battles over prewar lies are so ferocious in the United States. Top administration officials are going all out to airbrush yesterday's deceptions on behalf of today's. And tomorrow's.


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Solomon writes that the American mass media will not seriously pursue "the possibility that the lot of them -- Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and, yes, Powell -- were, in their pursuit of war on Iraq, significantly deranged." But thinking such thoughts is becoming almost inescapable.

A folie en masse -- a group delusion -- involving these significant people is the only thing that makes sense. Clearly, something in the deliberative process broke down. I am not being sarcastic when I say the most appropriate information feedback models are those that have been done for the Salem witchcraft frenzy. Take a look for yourself. One easy-reading work is "Why People Believe Weird Things."