Lessons on Lying

Though endless...

Here are a few lessons on lying... pertinent for our time...

Lessons on Lying

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Zealots are as likely to believe lies - as stupids.

As a condition characterized by - blind following, blind believing, blind championship - zealotry is a condition no more likely to be characterized by truths - than the condition of stupidity.

Verily - zealotry and stupidity - both - elevate blind loyalties above truths - including the propagation and dissemination of 'actualities' as real as leprechauns sitting atop cauldrons of gold.

- for example - zealots who champion one candidate for political office - are no more likely to believe the truth - as stupids who follow an other candidate for political office -

- such that - both zealots and stupids are blindly loyal to lies - regardless of which candidate for political office either rally -

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Peddlers of lies - invariably appear otherwise.

The gift of lying - is - the gift of appearing to truth.

That is - lying - is - seeming to truth while lying. 

Such that - peddlers of lies are invariably deceivers who seem 'sincere', 'genuine', 'authentic', etc. - while being anything but 'sincere', 'genuine', 'authentic', etc.

Such that - differentiating between deceivers who pretend to truth and truthers who truth - is less about appearances, including testimonies, that are as easily scripted to seem believable and convincing as scripts of rehearsed fictions that keenly titillate on stages grand and miser - than about:

- what lies within - and - what lies without.

- for example - scripts of authenticity as easily appear to issue forth, from within candidates for political office as without - with respect to inner characters of candidates for political office and public characters of candidates for political office - as well as - with respect to private beliefs of the economy, governance, international relations, etc. and public beliefs of the economy, governance, international relations, etc. -

- regardless of truths - within and without -

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Insofar as lies cohere societies - lies rampantly thrive with impunity.

Often - lies big and lies small - are compared - 

- as if - size matters.

However - it's not the size of lies that matter - but lies themselves.

- for example - lies of companionship - are roundly reviled as big lies, as well as roundly dismissed as small lies - depending on contexts, nuances, perspectives, etc.

- likewise - lies of accountability.

Moreover - when lies fuel 'actualities' as real as rehearsed fictions - such lies are rewarded 'free passes' to advance 'actualities' as real as Babe the Blue Ox and the Cave of Wonders that flourish unfettered within imaginations of abandon.

- for example - voting matters is a lie propagated and disseminated by stakeholders and profiteers because stakeholders and profiteers gain by lies, including the lie that voting is the exercisement of agency -

- verily selecting candidates for political office - means as little today - as ever -

- (for a multitude of reasons beyond the scope of this post) -

- not least of which - for the following -

The vast majority of laws are inherently arbitrary - (including those laws endorsed and authorized by lawmakers of political office that are no less arbitrary by mere virtue of endorsement and authorization by 'lawmakers' than by endorsement and authorization vis a vis oft vaunted 'precedent' of 'jurisprudence') - for a multitude of reasons -

- verily many laws enacted by lawmakers - inordinately and recklessly - rely - on 'beliefs' of behavior and liability that are not only flagrantly arbitrary (insofar as in so doing the vast majority of laws eschew truths of behavior and liability for 'beliefs') - they are also shamelessly exploitable by accountability avoiders (insofar as such laws leave much to be desired with respect to justness per mutuus et aequum) - regardless of which candidate for political office promises or intends to endorse and authorize whichsoever laws of the land - as elected lawmakers -

- for the fact that the following is true- indicates that no matter which stakeholders and profiteers and candidates for political offices are decision makers and law makers - stakeholders and profiteers and candidates for political office - predictably and indisputably - endorse and authorize laws that serve accountability evasion (inevitably per self interest, as well as per paid interest) (among other 'institutional' interests) - rather than justness -

- case in point -

- one set of laws for those who pay to avoid accountability - and - another set of laws to discourage the 'masses' from 'embracing lawlessness' via public punishment, certain -

- one set of laws for 'the vulnerable' who 'warrant protection' (deemed 'necessary' by patently overt paternalism) who thereby avoid accountability - and - another set of laws to discourage 'advantage taking' by 'brutes' via public punishment, unequivocal -

- one set of laws for 'the compromised' of 'unsound constitution' ('qualified' by 'conditions' that fulfill with artifice what is wanting of verity) who thereby avoid accountability - and - another set of laws to discourage 'deliberate lawlessness' via public punishment, unassailable -

- etc.

Needless to say - believing the lie that stakeholders and profiteers have protected, are protecting, will protect any interests but their own (as accountability avoiders, etc.) - with respect to laws of the land - 

Needless to say - believing the lie that any candidate for political office has instituted, is instituting, will institute (as defenders of accountability evasion, etc.) - just laws that effect mutuus et aequum for all - 

- out of goodness -

- out of sincerity, genuity, authenticity -

- (much less generosity, magnanimity, altruism, patriotism) -

- defies belief - among all - but zealots and stupids.

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Sadly - that distrust of lies and liars amounts to treason, sedition - irrationality, insanity - etc. - in the minds and hearts of many -

- results in the blind dismissal of care full scrutiny of that which is peddled for blind consumption -

- without rhyme, reason, or whyfor -

- other than blind adherence to lies pretending to truth.

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It seems of little point to me, to state the obvious -

Nevertheless -

That the obvious is abundantly absent elsewhere -

The obvious is here.

- M.

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Note

Notwithstanding above -

Let this be crystal clear -

Those who minimize the truths of lessons on lying -

Those who discredit the truths of lessons on lying -

In order to propel agendas of side choosing -

In order to propagandize agendas of side choosing - to the detriment of the truth -

Invariably see not their blind adherence to lies pretending to truth -

For blind loyalty to lies - is endemic and virulent among side choosers - of every side -

- regardless of side - purloined permission, credential, authority - partisan patrony, superiority, condescension - self conceit, righteousness, sanctimony - much less, self ascribed infallibility, unassailable and overweeningly self important - etc.

PERIOD.

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To the extent that myopia is a necessary condition of side choosing -

- any and all side choosers - who advance side choosing -

- are no less likely to be afflicted by that zealotry and stupidity characterized by aphotic determinism - than zealots and stupids afflicted by the same -

Such that - side choosers -

- of all strides -

- of all stripes -

- of all bells and whistles and lecterns and platforms -

- scaffold the very fictions that buttress the very stages upon which lies are peddled as easily as cures for blindness that cure nothing but that wantonly frivolous condition of riches desperate for lies pretending to truth extolled as ardently from props trotted as token testimonials as from zealots and stupids.

- M.