I wonder if this also implies you can trust powerful people with mediocre memories. If they don't have great memories, they can't have got where they did by lying.
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Was just thinking how one problem with telling lies is that you have to remember them all. Then I remembered that quite a lot of famous politicians have been known for their extraordinary memories. I'd always wondered about that. Now I may have a theory to explain it...
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That's an interesting point. But he's not a politician. He did an end-run around the politicians.
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True for all people but Trump. He doesn’t bother even remembering them because he follows each lie with another lie.
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This explains why society values alcohol and intoxication. More secret sharing, harder to recall why not to share something for some reason.
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I've heard that's why a lot of business negotiations in Asian countries involve going out and getting drunk: people are more honest when they're drunk.
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I wonder how their self-esteem & family life follow suit. When you keep building an intermingled network of lies, the compounding resultant might not be very elegant after a few decades.
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If the people with good memories are liars, who is left to remember they lied?
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"if you tell the truth then you don't have to remember anything" -Mark Twain
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Perhaps part of it also relies on the not so good memories of the public in general. Particularly when most of what is said is not personally salient. I mean who can remember everything a politician said in a news interview last Monday? I can barely remember the shirt I wore.
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So much of what we think we're paying attention to in fact just washes over us. Leaving no lasting impression.
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