Coherent deception requires discipline.  It has to remain consistent long enough to be believed and defended long enough to survive scrutiny.  That kind of control is brittle.  It breaks when people slow down and look closely.  Modern power has found something easier.  Instead of persuading, it saturates.  Instead of sustaining a narrative, it cycles claims.  Instead of defending, it overwhelms the conditions under which judgment is even possible.  Nothing needs to hold together.  Nothing needs to last.  Each claim only has to exist long enough to trigger a response before being replaced.

Information arrives nonstop.  Crises stack.  Every issue is framed as existential, immediate, and morally charged.  Nothing is allowed to wait, and nothing is allowed to be examined.  No claim has to win.  It only has to crowd out clarity.  Confusion isn’t a failure of control.  It’s the mechanism.

When everything demands attention, attention loses value.  Judgment collapses under volume.  People don’t abandon reason because they’re convinced.  They abandon it because thinking becomes exhausting.  Decision fatigue replaces belief.  Withdrawal looks like neutrality.  Silence feels like safety.  Exhaustion is propaganda operating at speed.

In this environment, truth doesn’t lose debates.  It never gets one.  There’s no stable ground to stand on and no pause long enough to ask first questions.  Each moment is buried under the next alert, the next emergency, and the next moral ultimatum.  Thought requires calmness.  Power makes sure there isn’t any.

The moral effect is predictable.  When reality feels impossibly complex, judgment gets outsourced.  Authority becomes relief.  Procedure replaces conscience.  Expertise becomes a substitute for understanding.  “I don’t know anymore” quietly turns into consent.  A confused population is manageable.

There’s no single lie to debunk and no decisive revelation waiting to happen.  Saturation produces a fog without edges.  Nothing stands out long enough to be challenged.  Control arrives as background noise.  Urgency is the disguise.  When everything is urgent, nothing feels important.  When nothing feels important, nothing gets examined.  When nothing gets examined, power doesn’t fear the truth.  It fears silence, focus, and a mind that refuses to be rushed.