Krazy

If we see an old film where snake oil salesmen are selling boxes of cure all remedies to eager onlookers.
We wonder how the suckers could have been stupid enough to be taken in by the hype and razzamatazz and conned into paying extortionate prices for what was usually some kind of coloured, flavoured alcohol.
How could they be so naive as to believe a single medicinal compound could cure all their ills.

Well the salesmen, the huxsters, might have been unprincipled conmen but they had a good understanding of basic psychology.
Give the punter a good show, make him believe in what you're selling, tell him it's a bargain and finally convince him that everybody else is using it...
If you are convinced that everyone else believes - then you do too, or at least you pretend to.

The 'Emperors new clothes' con has been around since time immemorial but it still works as well as ever.
The prouder and more intelligent a person is the better it works.
I call the people who perpetrate this con trick the 'Huxsters of Hubris' for they rely on the arrogance and self importance of the mark to blind him to the truth.
I'm too intelligent, bright, clever and streetwise to be fooled - they think :o)
The trouble is that many people, in their folly, look up to these
arrogant fools and trust their judgement. So it is that you can fool
all of the people some of the time, and most of the people all of the time - that's the way the system works.

Occasionally though a clear voice can be heard - clear and strong
"Look the Emperor has no clothes!"

All the huxsters can do is laugh and hope no one takes any notice. They can only mock and hope that others will join them until the clear voice is drowned in derisive laughter...
There is no better way to cover the truth than with mockery!

Since the huxsters have learned to promise jam tomorrow, rather than today, it is difficult to prove that they lie.
After all tomorrow never comes.
There are frequent reports of what wonderful jam it will be when it is ready. Announcements of better jam production techniques - but still no jam.
We hear occasional reports of samples of the new jam being even better than expected... but somehow it never actually arrives!

After all these years you would expect we would be onto them by
now. Roll up, roll up, buy your shares here.
Buy tomorrow today!
It will cure cancer, stop you from aging, grow you new limbs, help you live to be a thousand, keep you thin, cure all your ills... maybe even bring back the dead and make the world a better place to boot!

What IS this wonderful new panacea?

Why science of course.

Bringing you a -
******* NEW GOLDEN AGE *******
real soon now. (HONEST) :o)