Lies and violence are values that are integrated deeply into human culture, often distorted and interpreted in alignment with current dominant social norms (collective mindset). Vuong (2022) suggested that lies and violence are the tools dictators use to shape society (infosphere) into the projected system in their mind – a twisted, mirrored version of the naturally developed society. In the information process of establishing a dictatorship, lies and violence are used to give the dictator the right (justification) to continue exerting higher degrees of lie and violence. When the dictatorship infosphere is successfully established, the distorted core values are reinforced within the system; thus, the dictator’s lies and violence become the new social norms. Using the subjective spheres of influence and being influenced for reasoning, we further explore the information-processing properties of lies and violence deeper.
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