Lev Lafayette wrote:
On Mon, June 30, 2014 12:46 pm, Russell Coker wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:00:07 Carl Turney wrote: Getting a little tangential to the subject heading,
Well I would just say digressing, (to I am also prone) ; but we all have different attitudes to geometry; seem to remember some 'curious ' soul; who found an image of a tangent to a circle, absolutely hilarious !
.................snip the politicians seem to had deluded themselves into thinking that if local morale was altered to believe that they were winning the war, then the war would be won in Vietnam too. They were existing in a "defactualized world".
For some reason we don't seem to recognise that 'lies' as intentional untruths; are really quite a small subset of the untruths, that humans regularly utter. For some reason lying is considered extremely evil; whilst unknowingly telling untruths merely unfortunate; even though it is often far from clear ,which is the case ! Obviously sometimes we can be sure our politicians know they are telling lies; but an assumption that they " are existing in a defactualized world" seems fairly safe, and those not post-modern; simply deluded ? regards Rohan McLeod