Four classes of societal lies you have to get past to get through life Lies to children Lies to young people Lies to poor people Lies to middle-aged people There are no lies to old or rich people because you have to learn to lie to yourself to get to old age and/or high wealth
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Replying to @vgr
The implication being that honest people die or never make money?
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Replying to @vgr
Apart from being opposites? But so we don’t get stuck on non-overlapping vocabularies, what do you propose is the link between lying and making it to old age, and why should it be necessary?
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Replying to @Supreme_Owl_FTW
I don’t think out vocabularies can meet here
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Replying to @vgr
If well meaning people can pass each other as bullet trains in the night without understanding, what hope is there for our adversarial politics?
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Replying to @Supreme_Owl_FTW
Well passing each other is better than colliding
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