{"id":4056,"date":"2011-02-24T07:20:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T07:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/02\/24\/the-majority-of-politicians-on-the-evidence-2\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T07:20:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T07:20:02","slug":"the-majority-of-politicians-on-the-evidence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/02\/24\/the-majority-of-politicians-on-the-evidence-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Harold Pinter, 2005<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives. 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