#16: Don’t Trust the Government
So any time you ask a question like this—”what’s something that most people don’t think is true but that you feel confident is true?”—you’re guaranteed to get a few answers that are, perhaps, on the bit extreme end. I’m not going to say “conspiracy theories” because I have no doubt that there are elements within the government that would happily use propaganda against the American population if they could.
But my problem with this statement is that I can’t think of that many situations where the government sends out messages to its people at large—I’ve never seen a poster or commercial made by the US government, you know? So, how is this propaganda getting to me?