Lies and Lying Liars 0
Gina Barreca considers the wasteland of liars in our political discourse-doesn’t-really-seem-like-the-correct-term and remembers some liars she has known personally. An excerpt:
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But when you launder a lie, pass it along as the truth, put it into cultural and social circulation, it’s as if you’re handling dirty money. You hope nobody looks at it too closely or holds it up to the light for examination. It’s Gresham’s law, adapted: The counterfeit currency of lying will inexorably drive out the more valuable currency of truth.
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