A lie…
…gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its boots on.
And so does a faked photo on Twitter.
That “truth” quote is one of my favorite quotes, but I’m fascinated by how many versions of it exist, and how many people are reported to have been its originator. Sometimes it’s boots that are so slow to don, sometimes shoes, sometimes pants, sometimes breeches, and sometimes the truth is just mysteriously disabled and comes limping along.
At least they didn’t shop Chris Christie into that chair.
You remind me of a story I read on FB this AM wherein a Democratic senator has been indicted for running a drug
and prostitution operation on his private jet.
The fact that someone I know re-posted it, and that so many people commented in a way that showed they believed it, was fascinating.
It didn’t take much to know that the guy’s name was not one of a sitting senator.
But everybody wanted to believe it.
“Well bad news travels like wildfire, good news travels slow, they all call me wildfire cuz everywhere I go I’m bad news…”
Johnny Cash
Anti-social media is a symptom of bad times. Rumors, gossip, propaganda, and lies. Same as it ever was, but measured in nano seconds not hours.
A successful salesman once told me that people buy things they don’t need either out of fear or greed. I immediately rejected it as far too cynical but have since come to see there’s more than a bit of truth to it.
I think that somewhat applies to lies. Whether we accept a lie as true or doubt its validity, I suspect has much to do with whether we want it to be true or fear, that it might be true.
Please tell me this is fake news — Pres. Trump talking with the governor of Guam:
Do not believe anything you see that can be photo shopped. Computer graphics are so amazing now that almost anything can be faked. Talk about driverless cars and trucks, how about actor-less movies and TV shows? They’re coming. 🙁
J.J.,
Yes. No doubt they’ll come up with some clever catch phrase, like ‘realistic animation’ or ‘ani-realism’. But when you can’t trust your own eyes…
Hello Neo,
Busy week for all.
Off topic
I just now heard that Glenn Campbell, long suffering from Alzheimer’s had died on the 8th of this month
There are probably many like me who remember him more as part of the TV atmosphere of our childhood or youth, than out of any extraordinary love for country music. Though he certainly had the cross-over hits, which seem to be burned into the late grammar and junior-high school layers of my brain.
While looking at some YouTube vids I came across this – Wayfaring Stranger – which has also been excerpted in poorer video quality by several. It may be particularly appropriate.
There are some guitarists here too, who would I think, admire the almost blues-samba inflected counterpoint which Jerry Reed weaves behind the melody line.