Why the Big Money goes into the Big Lie

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8. In war, the safest place is the middle.

As Harry Harrison noted in "Bill the Galactic Hero": In modern war, the troops on the front lines get shot by each other. The people on the home front get bombed by the other side. The only ones safe are the jokers running the show hanging out in-between.

It's a great theme of world storytelling: Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" goes along the same lines, with the Samurai bodyguard working the two warring criminal gangs off against each other. Sergio Leone ripped the idea off -- scene by scene -- for "Fistful of Dollars" with the Baxters and the Rojos killing one another off to the point where one side's extinct and the other so weakened that the single fighter can beat the odds and the remaining House.

It makes for great myth. And that is why the financial and political elite -- the TPTB or the BFEE -- do all they can to create the information environment. From the little the public knows about what's what and who's who, their plan is working.