Metahonesty
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âAll lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.â
P.J. O'Rourke
I struggle to explain to people the difference between honesty & metahonesty. Metahonesty only becomes possible when you accept the role deception plays in your own life.
When I saw this sign in SFâs Castro district, I thought of my friend @SamHarrisOrg and my struggle to explain to him in early 2017 why people trust @realDonaldTrump when he is not truthful.
Trump is like the guy who added the last line on the sign when Clinton & Bush would not.
Trumpâs style of metahonesty is however very dangerous. I wrote about this in a 2011 essay I frequently reference on the theory of Kayfabe which I anticipated would take over as boomers were forced to deal w/ the cognitive aftermath of the Great Recession: https://edge.org/response-detail/11783