Plato was one of the most influential people in history and widely considered the founder of western political philosophy. He wrote in his best-known work, “Republic” about the “gennaion pseudos,” which translated into English means, “Noble Lie.” It reflects the belief that societal elites (nobles) knowingly use their influence and power to promote an untruth(s) to advance their agenda.
Consider the mandates and actions of our modern elites in government during this “Covid pandemic” which involved the quarantining of the well in addition to the sick, mandatory “vaccinations” even for medically compromised, church and small business closures while allowing big-box retail and online behemoths to book record profits. Using a page right out of Bill Gates 2019 Social Media conference playbook, the media elites use their influence and power to unrelentingly stamp out any and all dissenting opinions through defamation and/or censure.
Have we learned nothing from history? It appears, we are once again devolving into a totalitarian society where differing views on “the science” or even the problem are “verboten” and voices of concern are silenced.
I sometimes feel like I’m on the set of the television show, “To Tell the Truth,” sifting through clever lies and crafty deceit to try and determine who is really telling the truth. My truth seeking is further confounded because our elites have cleverly co-opted the scientific and medical community through financial incentives to help bolster their claims.
When considering these sources, we need to be reminded what the Polish mathematician Jacob Bronowski so brilliantly said “No science is immune to the inflection of politics and the corruption of power.” What’s telling in diligently looking beyond the veil of the cleverly crafted narrative of the elite’s talking heads and examining the medical and scientific research of those censured and silenced, you may discover the actual “pandemic” numbers are much lower and much more isolated to specific ages and pre-existing health problems than reported by the elites.
All of this should beg the question for us… are we in the midst of the grandest Noble Lie in history?
The problem with a lie, as even a child knows, noble or otherwise, is it often necessitates more and bigger lies to support the first. And lies coupled with power and influence become a powerful force for manipulating people and circumstances to one’s advantage.
Lord Acton put it well when he wrote “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” I believe we are experiencing an unprecedented era in human history where “great men and women” are exercising more and more of their collective power and influence to advance their agenda. There are various theories as to what the agenda is or how it’s being coordinated among the world’s elites. Only time will reveal, but it is unquestionable that the elite’s power and control over us commoners has grown exponentially during this “pandemic.”
Most of us want our world leaders and cultural influencers to use their resources and work together in facilitating changes that help improve our mutual well-being. Virtually everyone, however, is opposed to a group of elites, often self-appointed because of money, position or influence, secretly crafting and then promoting through falsehoods, plans to get us to play along with an agenda they have determined is best for us.
Frankly I believe us commoners are well enough educated and sufficiently enlightened to handle even the harder truths and it’s well time for us to hold our elites accountable to the judicial standard of telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
I think the greatest influencer of human history, Jesus of Nazareth, put it best “the truth will set you free.”
Alan Brooks serves as the lead pastor at NewLife Church in Rio Rancho, a church he and a few others started in 2007. He has a master’s degree in counseling, which he received after leaving a successful career in the financial sector to respond God’s calling in 1996. He began his full-time ministry as the children’s pastor with a mega church in Albuquerque, where he served for 12yrs.