“Nothing is ever certain.” Alice Sebold
This Pathology What is a lie and when is it? If it remains unspoken is it a lie at all or just a secret waiting to be told some day with a passion devoid of facts? Or is a lie more an avoidance, a denial of responsibility that a face may be saved to preserve a difficult truth framed by shame? Once the path is well worn it becomes ever so familiar, like an old shoe or a friend, this pathology of gilded words of virtue untruthed, where will it end? ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Some lies are part of courtesy… That’s all right.
Lies that bug me most? Politicians. On top of it they think we’re stupid…
Take care Paul.
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It’s the thinking we’re stupid part that bugs me the most. On the other hand, people who believe the lies prove the politicians right in their assessment of stupidity. And on and on it goes . . .
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Yes, self-fulfilling prophecy, if only it weren’t so.
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Indeed.
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100% with you. I may have mentioned it: never before has humanity been more educated. Think that in Europe (and probably the US) illiteracy ran at about 40% in the 19th century. Now the proportion of college graduates worldwide has never been higher. Yet politicos serve us the same stew? Makes me 😡
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My father would have said that the percentages would fail to indicate the short comings of the paucity of knowledge. Not that he said in those words, educated idiots was his term. Ironic, as he wanted me to get a tertiary education.
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I would agree with your father.
I know many a fool with PhD…
😉
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Me too 🙂
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As long as people keep eating the stew, the politicos are going to keep serving it, unfortunately.
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Yes, same slop as yesterday, gah!
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Botulism-fortified.
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I laughed, though it’s not really funny, you have a turn of phrase that nails the moment Liz.
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Thank, Paul. I just finished reading a novel with a black humor bent. Something must have rubbed off on me.
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Way to go, nothing like black humour.
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🙂
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They strive because we let them. If Democracy dies it will our fault…
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Yes, it sure will be, but in a way I think it is already shallow breathing.
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As you know I was raised in the “South” where dictatorships abound. I never thought “The West” would come so close to a political breakdown…
Interesting times.
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Yes, as the Chinese curse goes, we do live in interesting times. I was hopeful as far as the end of the Vietnam war, but then nothing changed, the attitude of industry and government was forever creating enemies, which lead me to realise that modern politics was simply a capitalist game. It’s the money (as I see it)
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The money or greed. (Which is the same)
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It is, and I think we need a new way forward, but, the politicians are pawns in the current game, so what chance change?
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I couldn’t agree more.
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They do think that, and it may be true given voting over the past forty years 😉
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I don’t know where it will end, but I wish it would…especially blatant disregard for the facts.
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Yes, seems to a problem everywhere.
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It is easy to tell when a politician is lying, you see their lips moving.
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Lol, yes, a constant dribble.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Many thanks indeed Chuck 🙂
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Always happy to share your words/posts, Paul!
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Well, I’m always grateful for what you do.
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it seems to be the norm in politics – well said
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We are living in a weird time.
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🙌🙌🙌
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Many thanks 🙂
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