How Do Lies Work In A Snowball Effect

How Lies Work in a Snowball Effect Lying has become an inevitable part of human nature. We as humans use it as a defence mechanism to benefit ourselves, or to manipulate someone else to get what we want. These exact scenarios happened in the Salem witch trials and the Red Scare, also known as McCarthyism. These are prime examples of people using lies for their own motives. One case had people accusing innocent people of witchcraft, a crime punishable by death at that point in time. The other was slightly different in the sense that it was more of an ideological war. Rather than people feeling threatened by an evil force as they felt with witchcraft, it was the idea of communism that frightened people. They both tie into each other through how they started and the end result of them. Many historical events happen the same way. They all start with a lie, whether that was for fame, power, or selfish reasons.

The Salem witch trials started in the year 1692. Twenty people died for the lies of Abigail Williams. The witch trials started because Abigail had an affair with a married man, John Proctor. She had begun to obsess over him. She and a few other girls who were “dancing” in the woods, and

The United States understood how to run an ideological war, to beat the enemy, you have to make everyone see them as an enemy so that everyone turns against them. The most effective way to do that was to demonise everything the enemy stood for and wanted. The United States began a propaganda war on all things Soviet, communist, expansionism and atheism. Even though the United States would become just as expansionist in its war against communism as the Soviets supposedly were. It was actually the Cold War that gave us the phrase “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, and our national motto was changed from “E Pluribus Unum” to “One Nation Under God” in 1956 as a result of the