The Technique of Infamy by Ezra Pound

„The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.“

Ezra PoundEzra Pound describes how false information sparks heated arguments about the truth.
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Ezra Pound was a 20th-century American poet and critic known for his contributions to modern literature.

This quote describes the strategy of creating confusion through false information.


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Ezra Pound (1885–1972) was an influential American poet, translator, and critic whose works and ideas greatly impacted literary modernism. He promoted many young writers and was known for his experimental and avant-garde approaches.

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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." Joseph Goebbels
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