has been often pointed out that the power of evil rests on the power of “imperial speaking,” the power by which evildoers seek to create an illusion that “all is well” (Aukerman 1993, 53) when in fact all is anything but well; ruin is about to take place (cf. Jeremiah 6:13–15; Ezekiel 13:8–16). But why do people believe the evildoers, we may wonder?
