The Pharisees asked him this. His answer should terrify anyone who depends on controlling information.
"I speak in parables so the truth survives what's coming."
He knew they'd bury everything he said. So he hid it in stories they couldn't kill without exposing themselves.
2,000 years later, it's working.
Jerusalem, 30 AD. Occupied city. Religious authorities who'd spent centuries perfecting how to silence people.
Every teacher knew the rules. Say the wrong thing, you disappear.
The machine was efficient. Prophets didn't last long.
Jesus had maybe three years before they killed him. He had to build something that would survive his death.
Here's what he figured out:
Your mind has defenses. Someone attacks your beliefs directly, you shut down. Argue harder. Dismiss them.
But tell someone a story? The defenses drop. You lean in. You want to know what happens.
Stories don't trigger the same antibodies that doctrine does.
During today's parade, DC filled with more soldiers than we've seen in eons.
We celebrated 250 years of military tradition. But the Army's most brilliant victories often came from making people see exactly what they expected to see.
Like the Ghost Army of WWII 🧵
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World War II.
The U.S. Army creates a unit of pure deception.
Artists. Sound engineers. Actors.
Their weapons were inflatable tanks and recorded battle sounds.
Their mission: make the Germans defend against armies that didn't exist.
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Picture the genius.
Combat artists inflating rubber tanks at 3 AM. German reconnaissance photographing them at dawn.
By noon, everything deflated and packed in trucks.
That night, the same "tank division" appears 50 miles away.
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