Bill Bonner on war propaganda and the power of simple narratives

Masses of people do not go to war because it will make their private lives richer, longer, or better... but for abstract principles that few can explain or justify.  Lebensraum... Preserving the Union... Driving the Infidel from the Holy Land... Making the World Safe for Democracy... the Domino Theory... the jingo hardly matters.   But it must be simple if the masses are to understand it, and bright enough to lure them to their own destruction.

~ Bill Bonner, Financial Reckoning Day, p. 170