Interesting, this word: “intoxication”. It comes to us from the Greek “toxicon”, which means venom, but a venom inoculated by arrows. Indeed, "toxon" means "bow". Intoxication, in its primary sense, therefore designates a deliberate, calculated, and not natural act of aggression. An act intended to kill.

The venom, here identified, is the lie. In the biblical tradition, lying does not primarily relate to speech but to action. It expresses a betrayal of trust, especially against God who is faithful. The lie is thus the essence of a diabolical action tending to destroy the divine creation and to bury with it humanity itself.

Mr. Breton also evokes a distinction between the lie that politicians would use to protect their citizens and the venom lie he is talking about. Plato, already, distinguished the "utilitarian" lie of the ruler, which he identified moreover with a "lie in words", and which he excused by its protective usefulness of the citizens; and the "true lie", which consists in voluntarily plunging the soul of another into error, and which is always detestable.5

All of these elements come together here. The modern lie is indeed a weapon, voluntarily wielded by the powerful against the citizens of all Western societies, whose trust they betray, in order to establish their hold on them by poisoning their minds. Their "arrows" are all the vectors of propaganda, political, cultural or media which, through manipulation, newspeak or direct persecution, plant the "venom" of subversion and lies in people's minds and morals.

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