Since 2011 The Penn State University has gone through the most extensive and intensive period of
"image re-formulation" in history. I challenge ANYONE to find another case where the public was so convincingly sold on CRIMINAL GUILT based on the crimes of a former employee. Most amazingly, this image destruction has been done without ONE SINGLE LEGAL FACT and in light of MULTITUDE of obvious suspicious actions events and actors.
From day one of all this I have believed that all of this "Scandal" was an ENGINEERED event - just too many pieces had to be "fit" together for it to occur "naturally" and too many "unfortunate mistakes and "gotcha" events have happened to support the "Story" which the public believes.
So here is a "lens" (perspective) which can be used to better understand "the Penn State Scandal". It explains why people are so definite in what they believe as "facts" (no matter which side they take) and why it is so hard to get a change the public's perception.
It all makes sense how & why PSU/Paterno was targeted when you look through this "lens".
The Big Lie Theory
A
big lie (
German:
Große Lüge) is a
propaganda technique. The expression was coined by
Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book
Mein Kampf, about the use of
a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously."
Hitler asserted the technique was used by Jews to unfairly
blame Germany's loss in World War I on German Army officer
Erich Ludendorff.
By placing responsibility for the loss of the world war on the shoulders of
Ludendorff they took away the weapon of moral right from
the only adversary dangerous enough to succeed in bringing the betrayers of the Fatherland to Justice.
All this was inspired by the principle—which is quite true within itself—
that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the
big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.
It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.
Even though the factswhich prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.
For the grossly impudent lie
always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to
all who conspire together in the art of lying.
ABOVE SOURCE: Wikipedia
Note that trained propagandists (known often as “spin doctors) understand how the big lie theory can be applied to “shaping” (more like creating) the public’s perception of an event.
The engineered “spin” of facts created by the “Big Lie” is designed to create a new public belief. Once the enough of the public “buys” this alternate reality,
the deceived public then uses “the Big Lie” itself to disprove the factual realities that actually exist
A core principal of this theory is that if you tell a lie often enough (using the power of the mass media), some of the people who hear it will believe it. The more the lie is repeated to the public, the greater the number of people who believe “The Big Lie” is the truth.
Please note that "lies" include exaggerations and (selectively edited and) out-of-context quotes.
