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Top Comments: Notebook #61: 'I insist on being shocked.' [1]
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Date: 2023-01-20
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Much like the late great Toni Morrison, “I insist on being shocked” at the sheer quantity of the lies that the man that we know as George Santos told his constituency in order to be elected to office. True enough we live in times where the 2020 election, described by government officials as the “most secure in American history,” is subjected to “The Big Lie” that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, so I can’t claim, nowadays, to be “shocked” in the sense of being surprised.
It’s not as if I’m naive about lying, especially when it comes to politics and power. In fact. I’m cynical enough to believe that politicians that I both love and despise shade the truth a little, don’t provide all of the information necessary to make an informed decision, spin, mis-inform, and otherwise don’t tell the entire truth.
Hell, I’ve lied from time to time for a host of reasons, compassionate and otherwise in completely non-political circumstances.
Many of us have, I suspect.
It’s not only the sheer quantity and the audacity of the lies told on a national scale, nowadays, that I worry about.
It’s that far too many people don’t even care.
Far too many people believed “The Big Lie” enough that a group of people attempted to overthrow the duly-elected government of the United States of America.
And Brazil.
In my normal, somewhat non-political life, lies simply prove not to be a sustainable way to live a good life.
And history shows that entire societies, at the very least, cannot sustain too many lies or the artifice required to maintain those lies.
Those societies decline and fall and change; usually for the worse.
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