Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Lying for life?
A. Barton Hinkle: Culture warriors resort to propaganda: Coercion and deception are each efforts to make an end run around the free will of others. Like war, they happen when we become too impatient with obtaining consent through persuasion and truth — when we decide other people's consent need no longer concern us. The lies of war are especially handy, because they do double duty. When we tell them to others, we can also tell them to ourselves — thereby easing our consciences for having steamrollered theirs.
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