Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Lying Pig

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3 comments:

Mark said...

Lying Pig. Agreed. He represents the worst a person can be. Our outrage is justified, but to focus on just him beyond the election is a dangerous distraction.

Being truthful is a quality that you and I value in people. It's been revealing that this is not a valued trait - at least in a politician - for 40 plus percent of voting Americans. In fact, it is the very "absence of truth" which somehow equates with "freedom from tyranny" and has brought out the worst angels in those around us.
If we set ourselves apart from "them", we learn nothing about who we are.

What say you?

7:18 AM
Jim Sande said...

This is an interesting quote on lying from of all people Ayn Rand - “People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”

8:26 AM
Mark said...

Jim,
Yeah, it's an apt description for most of us that have even a smidgeon of self awareness and reflection. But for someone like you know who, as long as his minions reflect back his version of reality, lying doesn't surrender reality to them. And the rest of us who shine a light on the lying do not register in his view. No, he does not have the freedom of will that we do and IS forever a slave to his fake world, but unlike crazy uncle at Thanksgiving, we haven't been able to walk away ---> just yet.

9:19 AM

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