This idea of lying to people over and over again came from Hitler's right-hand man, and it was proven by the Holocaust's very existence. Many people simply do not have the will to continuously resist the allure of the "easy way out," and others will do almost anything if they see that everyone else is doing it. The concept of lies has been used over and over again to manipulate people from teh seat of power, and history in this instance shows that people in general are not motivated enough to fight back against political bluffs.
Because I have been reading a lot of Tom Clancy's books recently, the first political body that comes to mind when I read the words of the art piece is the Politburo of Soviet Russia. Soviert Russia was designed for everything to be controlled by the government. Consequently, Russia's government occasionally had to trick the populace into doing things they did not want to, when the Politburo thought that those things were best for Russia's economy. Communisim required the people to simply fall in line. The artist was trying to convey in his/her art piece that too often, people, like the Soviet citizens, think that succumbing to the will of the government is just simplest.