Stagecraft is no substitute for statecraft. Eloquence and clarity is the mark of skilled leadership, such as Lincoln or FDR on the bombing of Pearl Harbor, but best spun fabrications passed off as truths just leads one into traps. Fiction can be a vehicle for profound truths, when offered as fiction. Lies, by definition, are led to mis-l…
Stagecraft is no substitute for statecraft. Eloquence and clarity is the mark of skilled leadership, such as Lincoln or FDR on the bombing of Pearl Harbor, but best spun fabrications passed off as truths just leads one into traps. Fiction can be a vehicle for profound truths, when offered as fiction. Lies, by definition, are led to mis-lead. Lies killed in the pandemic. The kill every day. We can never know for sure we have the truth, and we can sometime spread lies or errors unknowingly,
Stagecraft is no substitute for statecraft. Eloquence and clarity is the mark of skilled leadership, such as Lincoln or FDR on the bombing of Pearl Harbor, but best spun fabrications passed off as truths just leads one into traps. Fiction can be a vehicle for profound truths, when offered as fiction. Lies, by definition, are led to mis-lead. Lies killed in the pandemic. The kill every day. We can never know for sure we have the truth, and we can sometime spread lies or errors unknowingly,
But we know when we are lying. It's a choice.