Totally, but the lies have traditionally been concealed within factual information.

When the number of people sophisticated enough to call it out gets large enough, the next step is to undermine their sources of information to the point where they don't know what to believe--in essense corrupting what the people who spend time to educate themselves are able to learn. I think we're at that stage now and I think you and I are on the same page about that. I'm just pointing out that the idea that deceiving the public has become so pervasive as to be Orwellian or Kafkaesque (everything is a lie) in and of itself furthers the aim of having people not know what to believe.