Propaganda, misinformation, disinformation. These are the big guns of the political spin machine.
Whatever happened to "The Truth Shall Set You Free." I try to convince myself that there must have been a time when truth was the only thing that mattered. I would like to believe that at some point we were not cynical 'realists'.
I know better though. Deception comes entirely too easily to us. It is something that we learn in the crib. We learn manipulation as we learn to walk and talk and feed ourselves. Of course most of us, only use deception in the most dire of circumstances or in the most trivial of matters.
There are however a select few who are true artistes; who turn deception into an art form.
Just Me.
