You know how sometimes you agree with something, but over time you really start to get gutpunched by how true it is in a way you couldn't deeply feel before?
This is happening for me lately but with 'how much society is lying to itself about almost everything'
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and by 'society' i mean nearly all parts of it, all political and social sides and genders and hobbies and philosophical discourse and everything
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Thought you had that worked out long ago. Maybe your not the free thinker we thought. :)
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This is true in general, but especially rampant in American culture's fervent love affair with dishonesty.
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See, one of the pros/cons (both at the same time) of being on the autism spectrum is that I realized this by about 6 years old.
People on the spectrum don’t tend to handle these sorts of lies well, and it’s a large factor as to why they have difficulty interacting with society.
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Yeah, still not over the ‘07 government-insurance-bank fraud that caused a global financial collapse and subsequent bail out using taxpayer money
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Douglas Murray just wrote a fantastic book in which he explores this exact topic. That being said, it's an odd feeling. That has happened to me where i see unintended incentive structures in pretty much all things.