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> they prefer comfortable falsehoods to hard truths I think it goes farther than this. They choose liars because liars are supernormal stimuli for the body pol
by BeFlatXIII 3y ago
> they prefer comfortable falsehoods to hard truths
I think it goes farther than this. They choose liars because liars are supernormal stimuli for the body politic. If their lies are too obvious, they may be rejected, but most liars appear as better candidates than an ideologically similar candidate bound by truth.
- mindslight 3y ago> They choose liars because liars are supernormal stimuli for the body politic That might be a better way of describing it, at least for some things. Things that people want to be stimulated about, as opposed to things they want to ignore.