Reading this section in Will to Power, on the psychology of the apostle Paul and his spin* on the death of Christ, reminded me of the Tea Party movement:
That it does not matter whether a thing is true, but only what effect it produces — absolute lack of intellectual integrity. Everything is justified, lies, slander, the most shameless forgery, if it serves to raise the temperature — until one “believes” –
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* What else were these guys but the spin doctors of ancient times?
