Boobytrap: Lying As A Life Style

There most likely are many more than Casey Anthony who have been convicted of lying and serving time (from July 5 to July 17 2011) as a liar after being aquitted for murdering her 2 years old daughter, Caylee Anthony. All over the world people were convinced that she had killed her daughter to free herself from the burden of parenthood, and that she was an awful person altogether, shallow and mean. Before the trial she had sent the police, investigating her daughter's disappearance, out on several wrong tracks, one of them was an utterly false accusation of a woman whom she named as the nanny who stole her child. Also she told them that she herself had a job in a job place where they hadn't even heard of her. Another presumably false track was her father's alleged rape of her when she was a child. All in all she comes out as a LIAR, and many still believe that she also is a child murderer who got away with her crime.

Did she, or didn't she??? She was aquitted except for lying so that's what we know she did. As to the murder, your guesses are as good as mine.

We also know that pathological lying - and that's what we seem to have here - isn't an illness like other illnesses, but still, most of us feel it's impossible not to see an incarnate liar as ill. They tend to have a borderline personality disorder (BPD), a narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) as well as an antisocial personality disorder (APD), and they come out as sick in the meaning of "crazy" in a general manner.

Portrait made by Al and me

Liars may be charming and pleasant to be with. They often come out as full of good ideas, although these may lack substance. This lack of substance turns many of these good ideas into the opposite: BAD IDEAS. Many politicians feel a right to "bend the truth" and they don't even see this as lies. To them it's politics, and something "everybody does". Some even use lies as a non-masked tactic like e.g. Goebbels who (maybe falsely) has been quoted for advocating the so-called "big lie": "“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”" Did he say this? I've seen arguments both for the truth of this quote and the opposite ....

Portrait made by Al and me

The 45th President of USA is a well-known liar. So are several other presidents in the succession line of America, and somehow people know this, but without wanting the heads of those "dissidents". This time it's different, even though Trump has his supporters and fans - his entourage, so to speak - because the lies are so blatant that they cannot be denied. Some of these lies just seem silly, like e.g. the ones about his weight: 6-foot-3, 215 pounds. No way that is true, and we know it. Now it has turned into a laughing matter: How could he think that we would believe such a blatant lie by a man whom we know is a super narcissist??? Well, the thing with this particular man is that he himself believes in his lies. Somehow they become the truth by being uttered by him, although they are not. Where the Goebbels quote signals a conscious strategy then the Trump approach to the truth as such reveals a general lack of knowledge. That doesn't only go for health issues as e.g. Covid which he suggested cured by very, very weird "medicines" but everything. His sky-high arrogance makes him stick to what he himself said no matter what and that's always a problem ....