Cryptology | Aug 25 2000
In lieu of any actual WRITING, which would require both TIME and ENERGY to produce, here are some cryptic notes for you to ponder.
- Deceit among Howler Monkeys: C.R. Carpenter, 1931, p.181.
- Ekman’s rule of thumb: Do I care about the future of this relationship? If not, it’s okay to lie.
- Ask people to submit first remembered lie.
- Poll: Who was worse liar: Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Wiley Coyote…
- Other pick-up lines in The Sensuous Man.
- More Dorchen rants.
- All writing becomes a lie…
- “We Get Confessions.”
- Philosophical accounts of self-deception.
- Quote from Letter: “As I myself had always said, we point away from the truth, we know the truth but point in the opposite direction, because deep down we don’t want to look at the truth, we don’t want to face the truth. That’s the truth.”
- Bateson’s remark about animals not having capacity to lie.
- Sacks’ account of Reagan’s speech in “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.”
- Distinction between selfish and altruistic lies. One wonders what is altruistic.
A man signs a shovel and so he digs.
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