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HereSince1628

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3. I get that we tell lies even to strangers hoping to provide comfort
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 09:10 PM
Aug 2016

When government does that, I think I heard Obama's voice doing that to the Khans on the radio today, I think it's important to remember it's white lies meant to comfort


Because for people like me, there's an inescapable side bitter for something that never was there, and that makes me cynical. It makes me think that the government would lie to people to comfort them, because if the people aren't comforted, they will grow resentful and work against those who use war as a path to either or all... power, celebrity and/or wealth.

Hero worship imo is another distraction a way to take our minds off the ugly reality.

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