Liar’s Path, notes on truth, working truths, and deception
On Truth: Harry Frankfurt
Why am I doing this? I’ve lied and the shame burns to this day. Someone I’ve trusted lied to me; the injury heals as slowly as a gunshot wound. I’ve watched a grand deception unfold, its objective the death of millions, and contributed my share to its discovery and...
The Name of Things
A childhood friend on Facebook recently called me a Republican. On our playground sixty years ago, I would have pushed her into a snow bank. I was a 'bully' (as the girls daily named me). But Republican? She lives a thousand miles away. The grade school...
Liars and Storytellers (4): Reason to Believe
If I listened long enough to you I'd find a way to believe that it's all true Knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried Still I look to find a reason to believe Reason to Believe, Lyrics by Tim Hardin, 1965 'Everyone has their own reality,' she asserts with a...
Liars & Storytellers (3) (Background)
"Life's becoming better, sweeter," the poster announces. Deception begins with truth, however thin, The Great Famine, 1931-32, witnessed 6-8 million Soviet deaths by starvation. Indeed, in 1934, when this poster appeared, life had gotten better. The dead were dead;...
Liars and Storytellers: The Project
Liars and Storytellers is a non-fiction book project, which examines…here we go… liars and storytellers. I know a great deal about them. Our generation as did our brothers', uncles' and fathers' generations fought those who in the name of socialism spewed blood and...
The liar speaks truth: Deception and working truth (7)
Relatives visit the farm. Outside, the temperature was -25F. High winds swirled snow devils NW>SW across the south field. We had returned from X-C skiing. He picked up a book on Soviet intelligence operations in mid-twentieth century America. "That proves Joe...