WHY PRESIDENTS LIE
01.17.07
We thank you for reading our random rants and raves and supporting our efforts to promote our creative causes and those of our friends. Word. With that being said, chew on this excerpt from Carl M. Cannon’s recent article in the Atlantic entitled, “Why do Presidents Lie?” “Do they lie more than most peope? Are lies of omission essentially the same as lies of commission? What about presidents who convince themselves of things that are untrue - who are, we would say, “in denial”? Is this tantamount to lying? Can presidents be truly effective without lying - or are there times when they simply must engage in dececption? If so, when? And how is the public to know whether presidents are abusing that perogative?”
T.S. Elioit once wrote, “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” Personally, I’m in agreement. If that truly is the case does our incapacity to deal with reality justify the lies our government tells its public? Perhaps it does.
NOTE: For the record, the JoyEngine crew is in strong opposition to the war in Iraq. However, this is a slippery slope. We, as a warring nation cannot just pull our troops out of Iraq and let the Iraqi people fall into an even further state of chaos and begin slaughtering themselves in an inevitable civil war. While I personally have various theories on how to potentially handle our current situation in Iraq, I’m just not that scholarly, I’m far from knowing all the facts, the true state of the Iraqi nation, the sentiment of the Iraqi people, all the tenets of both the Sunni and Shiite doctrines, and subsequently will not voice any further opinion on the subject.
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