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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 3694
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 01:27 pm: | 
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Of course not. The truth is upsetting. And in America we go to great lengths to avoid upsetting.
Like Jack Nicholson said in "A Few Good Men", Americans can't handle the truth.
Take race. Nobody tells the truth about it. "We have solved the race problem" "We have put it behind us" "It doesn't count anymore"
And if you believe that I got a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in.
The Rightwingers have it worst of all, but it seems everybody got it. They tell a lie, that they know is a lie, and you know is a lie, and they know you know its a lie, but they still do it.
Perhaps all Civilization is built on lies. After all, when you see some stranger standing around looking ridiculous, you don't go up to him and say it.
When people ask you how you are doing, you say "Fine".
Thing is, it has gotten to where people are lying about important things.
I don't think a society that lies to itself about the obvious can long stand. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 7410
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 02:53 pm: |
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As wise men have said, there is the truth, and then there's the whole truth. Everybody has his own little parcel of truth which is why one person's truth is not another's. That's why there's the Afro-centric view of civilization and the Euro-centric one. Somewhere between their self-serving glorifications of history lies the whole truth. American is a hot bed of half-truths. Mere mortals have to construct their versions of the truth in order to thrive. Truth is just a word. Its reality is what it is. Its absoluteness lies only in the line of vision of the Supreme Being. |
Ntfs_encryption
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 1854
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 04:31 pm: |
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Of course not. The truth is upsetting. And in "America we go to great lengths to avoid upsetting.
Like Jack Nicholson said in "A Few Good Men", Americans can't.......
I don't think a society that lies to itself about the obvious can long stand."
Uhhhhhhh....Chris...what is your point? What are you attempting to say?
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