Deconstructing Some of the Significant Big Lies of Our Time
By
Zahir Ebrahim
-February 25, 2025
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Deconstructing Some of the Significant Big Lies of Our Time
Introduction
Most highly educated people I have encountered in my personal and professional life as an engineer don’t actually understand what a Big Lie is, let alone how that diabolical concept is deployed for engineering consent in our own age. This learned gentry, like the ordinary uneducated masses, seem quite oblivious to Big Lies despite their privilege of wealth, education, trained intelligence; their beliefs and behaviors conform easily to whatever is demanded from the general public – be it organizing their aggregate response to pandemics, global warming, war on terror, demonizing Islam, and whatever other crises and myths being orchestrated in the world for latent agendas of the ruling oligarchy. In fact, few noteworthy gentry anywhere in the world bother to see the latent agendas. Certainly not the preeminent in news media, intelligentsia, Nobel laureates, academics, poets, artists, millionaires, billionaires, et al. They are all too invested in their social standing to rock the boat. It is often the one called heretic who stands up.
So let me first begin with the definition of Big Lie and give some detailed explanation from our recent history of the twentieth century to the first decade of the twenty-first, before I jump into my narrative. Here is the dictionary definition:
Big Lie
noun
a false statement of outrageous magnitude employed as a propaganda measure in the belief that a lesser falsehood would not be credible.
Matching Quote
“… All this was inspired by the principle — which is quite true in 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 facts which 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. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes.” — Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), Mein Kampf, Vol. I, Ch. X, Why The Second Reich Collapsed, translated from German by James Murphy, source:
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200601.txt
Matching Quote contd. We are going to morally ignore the fact that the very next passage in Mein Kampf following the quoted sentences above makes the following blanket observations typical of Hitler’s fascination with, and contempt for, the Jewish race:
“From time immemorial however, the Jews have known better than any others how falsehood and calumny can be exploited. Is not their very existence founded on one great lie, namely, that they are a religious community, whereas in reality they are a race? And what a race! One of the greatest thinkers that mankind has produced has branded the Jews for all time with a statement which is profoundly and exactly true. He (Schopenhauer) called the Jew “The Great Master of Lies”. Those who do not realize the truth of that statement, or do not wish to believe it, will never be able to lend a hand in helping Truth to prevail.” — Adolf Hitler, Ibid.
We do so despite the actual fact of the matter that it is principally the Jews today, spanning the gamut of opinion makers from manufacturing consent to manufacturing dissent, and from left to right, who are leading the sanctification of the Big Lie of 9/11: that it is Muslims and radical Islam that attacked the United States of America, as already examined in
Sanctification of the 9/11 Narrative. In our challenge to liars and mass murderers, their aiders and abettors, we do not condemn an entire people from among whom these Superman, sociopaths, and mercenary henchmen of today spring from.
We seek to unmask all liars of every denomination, race, caste, creed, and heritage, irrespective of their self-identification. For, in the construction of the Big Lie of 9/11, all liars of all faiths and persuasions, including Muslim leaders and scholars, Christian leaders and scholars, Hindu leaders and scholars, Communist leaders and scholars, are equally complicit and culpable, each according to their own measure for all the evil which has followed from their echoing the Big Lie.
The
White Man’s burden today is quite uniformly distributed among Jews, Christians, atheists, and even Muslim house niggers, and all bear a fair measure of culpability but not through guilt by association with common heritage, race, religion or tribe.
That Big Lie of 9/11 however, is principally manufactured by the Jewish masterminds as already analyzed in the reports:
Hijacking the word ‘Islam’ for Mantra Creation and
FBI Muslims and Militancy Considerations. It is an acknowledged public fact that virtually all prominent neoconservatives beating the primacy war drums of naked aggression, military invasions, instituting sanctions upon Muslim Nations starting from the strangulating sanctions on Iraq after the end of the Cold War until the sanctions on Iran today, and most ferociously leading the vile pack of hectoring hegemons pushing the Big Lie of 9/11, the primary drum beaters of Militant Islam and the War On Terror, are American Jews.
The same American Jews also drive America’s unfettered support for Israeli Zionism and its state sponsored terrorism in Palestine. These ubermensch Jews have as much love lost for the Muslim goy as their fellow tribesmen in Israel demonstrate for the
Christian goy.
Indeed, virtually all significant prime-movers who have launched the imperial mobilization of the sole superpower using the Big Lie of 9/11 as the enabling pretext, fronted by their largely Christian political henchman from the White House to Ten Downing Street to other Western state podiums all across Europe, are Jews. It is also intellectual Jews like Bernard Lewis of Princeton University who have posited the doctrinal motivation of clash of civilizations which in turn seeded the Jewish Scholar at Harvard, Samuel Huntington’s famous book by that title, both pitting the Judeo-Christian Westerndom against the religion of Islam and Muslims with their vile demagoguery. And it is again intellectual Jews like
Noam Chomsky of MIT who have upheld the Big Lie of 9/11 while pretending to dissent with imperial mobilization. See
Exhibit-A and
Songbird or Superman – You Decide! respectively, for the partial list of Jewish names advocating Machiavellian aggression, and those who pretend to dissent with them while willfully echoing their Big Lie.
It is a great WWF wrestling game between manufacturers of consent and manufacturers of dissent, both of whom retain the same core axioms as inviolable truths upon which they each engineer public opinion for their respective flock. All led by Jews, in plainsight.
Incestuous self-reinforcement has been taken to dizzying new heights to foster the Orwellian paradigm of full spectrum thought control of the public mind. Their impact in collectively echoing the Big Lie of 9/11 is already monumental. For, upon its criminal foundations, not only imperial mobilization for constructing a new World Order on the planet that has already seen the immediate construction of police-state worldwide (most shockingly in the leading western nations like the United States and the United Kingdom), but also the long term sanctification of a new global theology to be passed on from generation to generation diabolically maligning Islam as the inevitable road to 9/11 against which the freedom-loving West only waged its “just war” in reaction, as the official history books are already recording all across the world, have been most cunningly built.
Generations across the world are going to grow up believing this Big Lie of 9/11. Students today, from elementary schools to universities, are already being taught that Ali Baba fable as fact. Ominous warning is issued to the public through the moving lips of the
president of the United States to not challenge or even debate that official “fact”:
President Obama warns not to challenge the official narrative of 9/11
(Caption: Change President Obama rehearsing the United We Stand song in 2009)
‘I am aware that there is still some who would question, or even justify the offense of 911.
But let us be clear. Al Qaeeda killed nearly 3000 people on that day.
The victims were innocent men, women, and children from America and many other nations who had done nothing to harm anybody.
And yet Al Qaeeda chose to ruthlessly murder these people, claimed credit for the attack, and even now states their determination to kill on a massive scale. They have affiliates in many countries, to try to expand their reach.
These are not opinions to be debated. These are facts to be dealt with.’ — President Obama, Cairo Egypt, June 4th 2009.
As we dare to deconstruct fantasies and speak the unpopular truth, that the ruling Jews today are spearheading the imperial drive to legitimize the Global War on Terror on Muslim nations using all the political and psychological tools of persuasion at their disposal, the full paragraph from Mein Kampf only quoted abridged in the Matching Quote in the definition of the Big Lie above, has to now be reproduced.
For, the full passage brings to bear a historical pattern, of cunningly legitimizing the waging of wars, above its propaganda noise:
“But it remained for the Jews, with their unqualified capacity for falsehood, and their fighting comrades, the Marxists, to impute responsibility for the downfall precisely to the man who alone had shown a superhuman will and energy in his effort to prevent the catastrophe which he had foreseen and to save the nation from that hour of complete overthrow and shame. 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 be likely to succeed in bringing the betrayers of the Fatherland to Justice. All this was inspired by the principle–which is quite true in itself–that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; …” — Adolf Hitler, Ibid.
Adolf Hitler, in contradiction to popular belief among Western academics, journalists, and statesmen alike, was not the inventor of the construct of the Big Lie. The head of the German Christian master race attributed the Big Lie to the Jews and not to his own genius for propaganda. Hitler berated this group of liars for having crafted the myths to confer legitimacy to the merciless strangulation and destruction of Germany by the Allies of World War I with the Big Lie. As quoted in the report on the
Mighty Wurlitzer, Hitler also admitted how he mastered the craft of his enemies:
“I learned something that was important at that time, namely, to snatch from the hands of the enemy the weapons which he was using in his reply. I soon noticed that our adversaries, especially in the persons of those who led the discussion against us, were furnished with a definite repertoire of arguments out of which they took points against our claims which were being constantly repeated. The uniform character of this mode of procedure pointed to a systematic and unified training. And so we were able to recognize the incredible way in which the enemy’s propagandists had been disciplined, and I am proud to-day that I discovered a means not only of making this propaganda ineffective but of beating the artificers of it at their own work. Two years later I was master of that art.” — Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 2, Chapter VI, Ibid.
Well, it is an art and craft brazenly put in action replay today by the ruling Jews who are once again spearheading the manufacturing of myths to confer legitimacy to the merciless strangulation and destruction of not just Muslim nations in this perpetual Global War On Terror (labeled World War IV by a former director of the CIA), but also spearheading the construction of police state USA. All across the world, their surrogate and infantile political leaderships are rushing to implement America’s iron-fisted global policies for inflicting police state on their own nations in the name of fighting insurgents and domestic terrorists.
The world has been reduced to a fully controlled chaos solely based on that one principal axiomatic Big Lie of 9/11 – that Muslim terrorists wielding Militant Islam attacked America.
The craft of propaganda based on the Big Lie perfected by Adolph Hitler, but not invented by him, has the public mind today accepting absurdities upon absurdities, and consequently easily acquiescing to atrocities inflicted upon others as well as upon themselves by the global superstate in the making, in the name of protecting the world’s public from terrorists. Just witnessing what is transpiring at
American Airports must make the nation’s founders weep profusely in their grave.
(Caption: what villainy transpires at American airports to keep the public “safe” that the people willingly comply with;
convince people of absurdities and get them acquiescing to atrocities. Image via flywithdignity.org)
Dismantle that one Big Lie and it all comes crashing down. Which is why the American president asserts don’t challenge it! And Americans, scholars and laity alike, comply. Do these handful of ubermensch liars trying to orchestrate global governance with global war-mongering, full spectrum propaganda systems, and in full control of key levers of power of Western states which puts Western militaries and Western budgets at their free disposal, think that Muslims have none among them today who can stand up to their Big Lie? Would they rather that we all lie down and submit quietly like the self-serving house niggers they are used to from the era of the East India Company?
This definition and detailed unpacking of the concept of Big Lie is quoted from my report on the deconstruction of the Big Lie of 9/11,
9/11 Narrative A Big Lie .
Now My Narrative
When I had entered MIT to study science and engineering in the 1970s like any excited starry-eyed kid in a candy store (some of my friends suggest I never quite grew up and am still a starry-eyed kid greedily eyeing new candy stores, others who read my work suggest I am now the disillusioned cynic walking in the footsteps of Diogenes, but I suspect I am walking more and more in the footsteps of the putative father of skepticism, Pyrrhon of Elis, as I feel I know and understand less and less with each passing moment, so what can I possibly commit to knowing with certainty let alone living it?), little did I realize that like political science and religion, both hard science as well as pseudo science also interplay in the service of empire.
At the time as a nondescript student and apprentice to many a notable master of discourse, I had never imagined that I would ever be labeled ‘conspiracy theorist’, or be counted among the ‘nut-jobs’ of modernity. I.e., actually become the uber-cynic-skeptic of official narratives and authority figures first hand and be awarded such titles. Beyond that, that I would even help unravel some of the greatest Big Lies of our time which have directly contributed to enslaving mankind into the straight-jacket of conformist thought to “United We Stand” even reasonably intelligent human beings with absurdities and silence in the face of crimes against humanity, even cheering it on!
The links to my reports below of my own deconstruction of Big Lies, are my humble contribution walking in the footsteps of the first patron saint of empirical modern science to have demonstrated the courage of his convictions at the risk of being strung up on the gallows and labeled as an heretic, Galileo of Galilee. Just look through the telescope, he hath pleaded before the Church pontiffs of his time, countering their divine authority with uncommon boldness: “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual”.
(Caption: quote of Galileo on the power of logical reasoning of even an ordinary mind over a thousand authority figures; source public domain, from the web)
Except that today it is the Church of Science and the Church of Officialdom that have brazenly taken over from the Church of Christendom. The risks today are also substantially similar. Only the labels might be different. Among the tens of thousands of notable scientists and engineers and scholars and intellectuals worldwide, there are evidently too few Galileo practicing critical thinking to make any impact on the ubiquitous new Churches of Behavior Control and Psychological Warfare for United We Stand that have taken hold of the entire planet in the twenty-first century.
What has surprised me is that I have even been able to do this at all, because, firstly, I don’t rank myself very highly in either possessing a superior intellect or a superior morality. In fact, among my stellar friends throughout the world, I value myself at the bottom in relation to their global successes, piety, virtues, and all that is deemed motherhood and apple pie. Secondly, and surprisingly, this hasn’t been terribly hard to figure out! I don’t understand how I have been able to do it but not a single one among my many illustrious friends and teachers? They have elected to stay publicly silent even if they may have figured any of this out in the private quarters of their mind and living rooms —- and these people are the most well-known and valued members of society. They are counted among the most imposing intellectuals of our time holding lofty academic, social, philanthropic, humanitarian, and moral credentials. Can I be permitted to say:
what the fck?
Where is their high-falutin morality? What happened to their far superior intellect that they have remained silent on some of these greatest Big Lies of our time? All my life I remained in awe of such people and today I can only exclaim what the fck! Is any of this rocket science that they should feel silence is the better part of valor? That they should so willingly contribute to the propagation of these Big Lies by at least tacit endorsement of silence, and at worst by active propagation? I have to wonder what has made these stellar individuals such cowards? They had struck me as the most valiant and brave in my university days — before these tests were put upon us that is. And I extend that observation of cowardice and moral depravity to all privileged minds on planet earth, but in particular the privileged Muslims who are educated, are not in want, possess a functioning mind, a mouth, and a pen! Indeed, to all mankind in all nations on earth, both secular (i.e., irreligious) and religious. Instead of spewing gibberish on the prayer mat and dreaming selfishly of some Heaven beyond or living self-serving desires, I have never understood why so few even attempt to make heaven right here on earth for everyone by standing up to the villainy of power right here and now?
This villainy of power, reflected in the state and authority figures, when it remains unchallenged, manages the public’s perceptions, public’s beliefs, and thus controls public behavior to United We Stand them with the imperatives of power. Which is always primacy. Thus, not just in Pakistan today, but in the entire world, successive crises of humanity that all can witness and the majority can experience, have taken deep roots and become the “new normal” as the consequence of the greatest Big Lies of our time – the crisis of social dysfunction and global dystopia in the making, the crisis of disenfranchisement, the crisis of warfare and hegemony, refugee displacement, lavish lifestyles of the increasing few while increasingly the majority struggle for meal a day, etc. Indeed, many can come up with their own similar list of unhappiness and displeasure with the way things are – but do we do anything about it?
No, of course not, why should anyone care about these crises, except make high-falutin commentaries in their living rooms, in television talk shows, in social media chat rooms, in academic forums, and in political speeches, all remarkably devoid of substance; the careers, the fat paychecks, and the good life often gets in the way of those not directly under the jackboots of tyranny. Six feet under the maggots surely can’t tell the fcking difference! Atheist and theists both taste death alike; the maggots eat them alike. Then, regardless of theology, since the end is dust for all, what life is worth living while alive? A coward’s chasing the American Dream? A bullshit con-artist’s paying lip-service to humanity while all these Big Lies stand tall and equally disenfranchise all except the elite and the co-opted? Or the inveterate zombie’s who dies well before its time? They can’t all just be plain stupid to not see through these Big Lies now can they?
Stupid or co-opted or zombie, evidently for such stellar members of humanity, that life is worth living — that of cowards and sell-outs wearing the garb of respectability. I have no words of praise for their high-minded virtuosity regardless of the piety so prominently stamped upon their forehead; all are syphilis ridden underneath that virginal gown. I hope none receiving or reading this analysis are counted among that hypocritical lot. Since my religion is Islam, I feel privileged to seek refuge in the prayer: May God protect us all from this villainy. But that also means acquiring the courage of our convictions!
Today, many areligious and irreligious people display this courage far more than the religious man of any cloth. This is evidenced from the fact that among the truthful rebels who have chosen to take on the mantle of unraveling these Big Lies as a categorical imperative, a vast majority seem to be religionless, and many rebels, in fact, appear to be from Jewish background. What has happened to Muslims? Or Christians? Or Hindus? In his book: The Religions of Man, subsequently retitled: Religions of the World, Huston Smith had also mentioned Confucians and Buddhists as I recall, also equally missing from the scene of truth-telling and falsehood repelling the greatest Big Lies of our times.
Indeed, more profoundly religious and Heaven or Nirvana or Rebirth seeking, the less inclined one appears to be to become engaged in making heaven right here on earth! Minor exceptions are notable only for the fact of their minuscule numbers. I have never understood this, for one would have thought that the religions of man would at least have wanted man to live in moral decency and valor. Is the problem in man, or in his religions that he leaves the field wide open for the sociopaths to exercise their primacy? The secular humanists will of course rush to endorse the latter, but what would be funny if it wasn’t so criminal, is that this avant-garde breed is equally notable for its absence in dispelling these Big Lies.
We are living in the age of the hypocrite.
Has it ever been any different? Is this the lot of man?
When I first read Elie Wiesel’s books (when my kids were in junior high and had to read Diary of Anne Frank, and as was my custom while raising my children in the West, I would read their assigned texts first to judge appropriateness) I was struck by this HolocaustTM survivor’s lament in his memoir All Rivers Run to the Sea:
“and I still curse the killers, their accomplices, the indifferent spectators who knew and kept silent, and Creation itself, Creation and those who perverted and distorted it. I feel like screaming, howling like a madman so that that world, the world of the murderers, might know it will never be forgiven.”
I have often wondered whether this is exclusively only a Jewish lament, that the Jewish HolocaustTM is the only supreme crime, and Jews the only supreme
worthy victims?
Or, does such lament also escape the lips of the
unworthy victims of primacy and hegemony who have survived these Big Lies, and also those who haven’t and have mercifully seen the end of it?
Muslims today are the
unworthiest of victims. And we naturally, albeit quite unfashionably, tend to blame the victim. But does the fault lies in the serpent that bites, or the victim who does not prepare for its own defense?
Pakistan’s media, its judiciary, its military, its intelligentsia, its industrialists and its super-rich class, its political class, and its ruling classes in general, alongside the ordinary common man, the middle class, and the have-not class, will all be replaced by a better people who will not be silent before falsehood and tyranny — so promises the God of Islamic Republic of Pakistan in the Holy Scripture. I imagine, as a theist, that there is only One God of all creation regardless of religion, tribe or nation. Thus, that promise must apply to all peoples if it applies to any people. Are we ready to be replaced? I am not.
“There comes a time when silence, is betrayal. The truth of these words is beyond doubt. But the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government’s policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty, against all the apathy of conformist thought within one’s own bosom, and then the surrounding world. … Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night, have found that the calling to speak, is often a vocation of agony. But we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.” — .
And spoken, I have.
So, I present the following deconstruction of some of the greatest Big Lies of our time because I do have a pen, a mouth, and whatever little mind that I am fortunate enough to be bestowed with that still functions. I doubt that this humble attempt is in anyway sufficient protection from being replaced by a better people, but I try. A Pakistani friend shared with me the simple epitaph that he had frustratingly written for himself which I had shortened to: “He tried.” I hope you reading this are doing the same, but are not speciously journeying on
The Road to Nowhere.
If I have uttered any falsehood, I invite correction.
Caveat
There is no substitute for doing one’s own due diligence. For, indeed, in the age of universal deceit, to ferret out the whole truth of any matter is a revolutionary act! It depends greatly on the individual mind and its state of awareness.
With each passing day our episteme gets more and more convoluted; gets based not upon empiricism of realism — as the university literate crowd of the simpletons and the credulous imagine — but on the metaphysics of what authority figures and officialdoms claim is empirical.
The normal sheepish mind of course refrains from looking through the telescope to begin with, and looks mostly toward shepherds to lead it… But even when a sharp logical mind might try to examine empirical data on its own, it is often faced with a crippled epistemology.
The epistemology of virtually every domain of human endeavor which intersects with politics, exercise of primacy, social engineering and making the public mind to United We Stand, is getting more and more infected with pseudo science, religiously held axioms instead of falsifiable ones, and absurd narratives of putative experts. The convolutions of the imagery of supposed reality on Plato’s cave are now hierarchical and very deeply nested —
(Caption: Plato’s Myth of the Cave from The Republic; how can prisoners inside the cave ever discover that there is altogether quite another reality outside? The prisoners of the cave can apply any logical analysis they want as eruditely as they want to the data they see and believe, and yet never learn of the actual reality outside. This is what happens when epistemology itself is crippled with Big Lies. Image source public domain, from the web)
You un peel one layer of imagery and there is yet another complex
truth’s protective layer underneath it… but you don’t know that initially. Hence, becoming cynical and skeptical of everything that is overtly visible, as well as held covert and latent, even for natural thinkers, even of what may seem obvious by the logic of inductive and deductive reasoning applied to what is presented as factual, is the natural outcome of an aware mind when epistemology itself is put into question.
I doubt if Mr. Spock in the Star Trek fable can reason through crippled epistemology and claim anything other than GIGO – Garbage-In Garbage-Out, as the output of his fabled logical mind. But Captain Kirk can!
The most perfect logical reasoning applied to data comprising a convoluted mixture of lies and half truths presented as empirical fact, even the evidence of one’s own eyes when the telescope itself generates its own truth, or projects false imagery to the eye glued to the eyepiece oblivious of the age of universal deceit, can only lead to GIGO.
But deep awareness with insight and intuition that transcend what the instruments show and authority figures claim as factual data, like what Captain Kirk possessed and which helped him trump and beat the uber logical Mr. Spock in every episode of Star Trek in which the Captain did not follow his principal science officer’s advice, the mind can perhaps transcend crippled epistemology. It needs the sophistication of the proverbial Third Eye.
(Caption – how can Zahir ever explain to the conformist herd that the man and the dog are actually working together? Akin to trying to explain the beauty of the colors in the rainbow to the blind by birth! The sheep has got to get sighted on its own. Image derived from a similar public domain image found on the web)
Unfortunately, the likkha-parrha jahils of modernity with university degree pile a mile high, often don’t seem to posses sight in the Third Eye in sufficient measure to see through the dense fog of Machiavellian deceit and their own self delusions.
My friend recently asked the paid subscription version of ChatGPT 4 to explain what I mean by the term likkha-parrha jahils in my writings. I doubt if I ever explained the term beyond translating it as “educated morons” or “literate morons”. The following is what the ubiquitous AI chatbot based on GPT-4 Large Language Model (LLM) came up with. Interestingly, ChatGPT’s output is quite sound based on its vast quantity of training data, except all its quotes below are “bullshit” as one recent 2024 paper prefers to call ChatGPT fictions, and “hallucinations” as some AI developers prefer to call ChatGPT output when it is made up and falsely attributed. I don’t recall the quoted text as exactly mine, but I have surely observed similar realism in my pertinent writings.
ChatGPT said:
Zahir Ebrahim uses the term “likkha parha jahil” (written in Urdu as لکھا پڑھا جاہل) to refer to “educated illiterates” or people who, despite being formally educated, lack critical thinking, self-awareness, or the ability to challenge established narratives and systems of power. In Ebrahim’s view, these individuals may have advanced degrees or professional qualifications, but they remain ignorant of the deeper truths about society, politics, and global power structures because they passively accept the information fed to them by mainstream institutions, media, and authorities.
Key Aspects of the Concept “Likkha Parha Jahil”:
- Formal Education vs. Critical Thinking
Quote: “These so-called ‘educated’ people may know how to recite facts and figures, but they remain blind to the deeper manipulations at play, which is what makes them ignorant in the true sense of the word.”
- Ebrahim uses this phrase to criticize those who equate formal education with wisdom or true understanding. He argues that having a degree or formal schooling does not necessarily equip a person with the ability to think critically, question authority, or recognize the manipulation behind political and media narratives.
- Example: A “likkha parha jahil” might be someone who has an advanced degree but uncritically accepts government narratives or mainstream media reports without questioning their biases, underlying motives, or broader context.
- Indoctrination through Education
Quote: “The modern education system produces cogs for the machinery of empire, but these cogs remain ignorant of the very system that controls them.”
- Ebrahim believes that modern education systems, especially in the West, train people to become conformists rather than critical thinkers. In his view, the emphasis is on learning facts, skills, and techniques necessary to function in society, but without encouraging a deeper understanding of the systems of control that govern people’s lives.
- Example: Someone who goes through the education system and becomes a lawyer, doctor, or engineer might still be considered a “likkha parha jahil” if they never question the political and social systems in which they operate or the ethical implications of their work.
- Blind Faith in Authority and Systems
Quote: “To be truly educated is to question authority, not to serve it unquestioningly. The ‘likkha parha jahil’ is content to serve, unaware of their own intellectual enslavement.”
- Ebrahim critiques those who have blind faith in governments, media, and corporations simply because they hold respectable positions or credentials. These individuals, in his view, fail to challenge the status quo, becoming complicit in the very systems that perpetuate injustice and inequality.
- Example: A news anchor with a degree in journalism who repeats government press releases without investigating or questioning the underlying agenda would be labeled as a “likkha parha jahil” in Ebrahim’s terminology.
- Social and Political Implications
Quote: “These educated people, sitting in their ivory towers, do not realize that their actions help perpetuate global suffering. Their degrees mean nothing if they cannot see the human consequences of their decisions.”
- The term also reflects Ebrahim’s frustration with intellectuals, professionals, and experts who, despite their education, fail to recognize the role they play in upholding unjust systems. He criticizes these individuals for being passive or even actively participating in the global structures of power, such as imperialism, neoliberalism, or Zionism, without understanding their ethical consequences.
- Example: Economists working for institutions like the IMF or World Bank who push austerity measures in developing countries, despite evidence of their harmful effects, might be considered by Ebrahim to be “likkha parha jahil.”
- Cultural and Social Conformity
Quote: “In our societies, too many parents and educators simply follow the scripts written for them, not realizing that they are perpetuating cycles of ignorance and conformity.”
- In a broader sense, “likkha parha jahil” refers to individuals who are culturally and socially conditioned to accept prevailing norms without question. They follow societal rules, expectations, and conventions without critically assessing whether these norms are just, equitable, or aligned with true human values.
- Example: A parent who pressures their child to pursue a conventional career (like medicine or engineering) solely based on social expectations, without considering the child’s personal aspirations or the broader societal impact, could also be seen as “likkha parha jahil.”
Conclusion
In essence, Zahir Ebrahim uses “likkha parha jahil” to describe people who are educated in the conventional sense but lack true awareness or the ability to think critically about the systems of power that shape their lives. These individuals might have degrees, professional titles, and societal respect, but they remain blind to the deeper manipulations at play in the political, social, and economic systems they live in. For Ebrahim, true education involves questioning authority, seeking out hidden truths, and resisting intellectual complacency—qualities that “likkha parha jahils” lack.
End ChatGPT
When studying my deconstruction below, it would be useful for fallible minds to try to rise above that likkha parrha jahil template ChatGPT came up with. It will help to understand how confirmation bias and simplistic worldviews unwittingly infect the innocent mind:
(Caption: three slides from my 2015 book: The Poor-Man’s Guide to Modernity, templating the infections plaguing the unaware human mind in its infancy unable to fathom the instinct for primacy, and how to rise above it,
https://tinyurl.com/Modernity9ed )
Deconstructing Some of the Significant Big Lies of Our Time
Under the FBI collaboration operation, someone at Facebook red-flagged supposedly subversive private messages over the past 19 months.NurPhoto via Getty Images
Former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home was raided last month.AP
“Google, Facebook and Twitter, these companies are globalist,” a whistleblower says.AP
Mark Zuckerberg previously said he regretted suppressing stories about the 2020 election.Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images
