The crimes I laid at their door were so grotesque, so impossible, so widely exaggerated, I thought everybody would see the joke and give me credit for originating a new line of humor. But my readers wouldn’t have it so; they accepted my fables as gospel truth, and the more I lied for the purpose of showing that I lied, the more convinced became they that I was a paragon of veracity... I thought I would kill myself laughing at some of the things proposed, but everything went; there is no limit to human stupidity.
For us here that lament how long the cooties lying can go on, this may not offer much hope but for me, it was a fun rabbit hole to go down.
Occult dimensions of the big lie
https://mrereports.substack.com/p/the-greatest-hoax-of-all-time
The crimes I laid at their door were so grotesque, so impossible, so widely exaggerated, I thought everybody would see the joke and give me credit for originating a new line of humor. But my readers wouldn’t have it so; they accepted my fables as gospel truth, and the more I lied for the purpose of showing that I lied, the more convinced became they that I was a paragon of veracity... I thought I would kill myself laughing at some of the things proposed, but everything went; there is no limit to human stupidity.
For us here that lament how long the cooties lying can go on, this may not offer much hope but for me, it was a fun rabbit hole to go down.