BRILLIANCE FROM FORMER BLOGGER BILLMON

Billmon was the brain behind a leading blog entitled "Whiskey Bar". Regrettably, Billmon ended his blog a couple years ago. The Author came across this perseptive quote from Billmon a few days ago. It is worth a share.

WHY LIES FLY.

To paraphrase Hannah Arendt, the peculiar vulnerability of historical truth (which means political truth) is that it isn’t inherently more plausible than outright lies, since the facts could always have been otherwise. And in a world where the airwaves are overloaded 24/7 with the mindless babbling of complete idiots, it isn’t very hard to make inconvenient facts disappear, or create new pseudofacts that reinforce whatever bias or cultural affinity you want to cultivate – particularly if the audience is already disposed to prefer your reassuring lies to discomforting truths told by strangers.

DEAD MEN LIE IN THEIR GRAVES AND CAN SOMETIMES LIE FROM THEIR GRAVES. BUT NOT IN THE DESERT OF THE REAL WHERE HARD TRUTHS WAIL AND HARD LESSONS ARE DISTRIBUTED.