Society Has Become Radically More Cynical

With the democratization of the West, the advent of the press, and especially marketing, society has become radically more cynical and its means of oppression even more perverse. The State has become stronger than ever and has expanded its methods of social control, assuming the position of God and waging war against the manifestation of the individual, reducing him to nothing and taxing him as a criminal if he opposes its tyrannical and immoral impositions. Censorship has become prior, condemnation veiled, defense mechanisms have been annulled by mass psychology—all this operated by an authority based on a false and hypocritical foundation that only grows. Cynicism and lies have never been used so effectively as instruments of domination and power.