Government Intelligence? Hah!
I don't know why we worry about government agencies snooping into our private lives. It seems like ninety percent of the time they get it wrong. On the other side of the coin I'm all for better and better ways of ferreting out secrets. I'd like to see the day when spying technology gets so invasive it'll be impossible to keep any secrets at all, and the equipment is as easily available to everyone as a cheap cell phone. Then everyone will simply have to suck it up and tell the truth. Pedophile priests, Britney Spears' drug use, closeted gay evangelist preachers, even the president will be open to scrutiny. Obfuscation, distortion, and cover-up will be out of the question. Everybody's a liar, even the most presumably honest among us. We learn to lie early, the first time our mothers ask us who broke the lamp in the living room. "I did, mom," we answer. "Go to your room immediately, young man [or lady]. And maybe now you'll know better than to go in the living room without permission." But that's not what we learn at all, we learn that from now on we say, "it wasn't me, mommy, the cat must have done it."
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:29 AM
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Do parents send their children to Sunday school any more to learn the 10 commandments? Not many.
How do they learn right from wrong?
Those commandments were drilled into me as a kid and there is such a thing as a conscience, but it does need to be activated.
Only the people who have something to hide need to worry about "remembering to tell the same lie to everyone"... and they can't. The truth always seems to come out. Katherine
Love this one, glad Jeremy is back. By the way, has the mother aged a bit in this cartoon, says she laughing.
Katherine, a friend of mine who was a pathological liar but otherwise a terrific person once had to give a deposition in a law suit. Afterward he said to me, "you know, it's amazing, when you tell the truth you don't have to remember what you said."
Lee, who wouldn't age when having to deal with Jeremy day in and day out?"
John, My son the computer guru pointed out to me years ago that privacy is an illusion. "Anybody who knows what he is doing can find out almost everything about anybody."is the way he put it. Sothe trick is to remain not worth looking at. I am coming close to achieving that.lol roger
The state of denial could easily be called the fifty first state of the United Sates, but that nation is not alone in its chronic incapacity to look reality in the eye. An Israeli reporter in the current issue of the London Review of Books documents a conference held in his country in which a gathering of the country’s leaders and the ex-head of the CIA, Woolsley, all agreed that forty years of occupation by Israel of its Palestinian population had in no way influenced the rise of Islamic terrorism throughout the entire middle East.
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