This looks quite meaningful.

There's a small aside in one of the ongoing sagas with a casual but sophisticated recognition in passing, about the ultimate effect of mass propaganda:

>because of the false cause of the Bentites and the Persians, the peoples of the cities turned against one another, and with swords sharper than those of their enemies, they perished.

>Ponus the tyrant, the enemy of righteousness, with his arrogance that exceeded all bounds, destroyed and annihilated many every day.

In the same breath, associated it with deep character defects to the extreme, such as lack of empathy that is off the charts.

This is nothing new, lots of people have been instantly recognizing this stuff no differently for millennia.

The ongoing problem is, lots of other people fall for certain propaganda at certain times, hook, line, and sinker.

And when it's coming from a character having extreme lack of empathy or even downright hate, the people who are drawn to congregating around that lightning-rod are the more hateful, as well as more easily manipulated, or they wouldn't be there.

It's got to be the worst when it's somebody well-known enough to write about historically, and all future generations are supposed to learn from.

Edit; Found the alternate translation to the above passage:

>Because of the absurd reasons of the Veneti and the Prasini, the peoples of the towns fought each other and were destroying themselves with swords sharper than the swords of the enemies.

>Bonosus, the tyrant and the enemy of good, with a haughtiness exceeding all, was killing and destroying many every day.