This reminds me of Hanna Arendt's 'Lying in Politics' https://archive.is/tzY2v https://archive.is/tzY2v "It is this fragility that makes deception so very eas

This reminds me of Hanna Arendt's 'Lying in Politics' https://archive.is/tzY2v https://archive.is/tzY2v "It is this fragility that makes deception so very easy up to a point, and so tempting. It never comes into a conflict with reason, because things could indeed have been as the liar maintains they were. Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear. He has prepared his story for public consumption with a careful eye to making it credible, whereas reality has the disconcerting habit of confronting us with the unexpected, for which we were not prepared." As the saying goes, "All models are wrong, but some are useful". I would like to add: "For different people for different reasons".