2022-08-04
"The bigger they are, the harder they fall!"
This maxim applies to lies too.
A small lie can be readily discredited, but when your whole world view (and possibly your job, marriage, and social status too) turn out to depend on the lie, it's a different matter. Knowingly or not, we have investment in the lie, and if the lie falls, so does our current lifestyle.
But it's still a lie, and lies have a habit of being discredited eventually. They have never become the truth, even if many perceive them to be true.
When the lie is big enough, even readily available information in the public domain will be ignored by those who prefer to remain ignorant of it. So the awful statistics revealed by the various adverse events reporting systems sit gathering internet dust whilst those who don't want to look pass by on the other side.
Yet it isn't merely about the lie, it's about whither the lie is leading us.
