StrangerThan
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Our entire world is built upon half truths and avoiding responsibility. It is endemic, rampant, and so much a part of life that it is almost indistinguishable from the basic things life must contain.
Advertising people know that well and perception is everything. How many cars you bought that didn't have 99 somewhere near the end of the price? Ok the $300 20 year old bug you bought from your buddy, doesn't count. I'm talking dealers, new or used. How many contracts have you ever seen that were easily understandable and not full of fine print? How many jokes you made at the disclaimers at the end of the drug commercials? You know, the ones that show some man or woman walking through a field of flowers with a blissful look on their face for like 25 seconds and in the 5 seconds at the end of a 30 second spot, some auctioneer type runs through a list of may causes that sometimes include death. Really? May cause death? So might alcohol, tobacco, cleaning my pistol while it's loaded.
How many times you listened to people running for office accuse each other of unthinkable things, while defending their own stalwart upholding of your values and concerns? He voted against education and on legislation that will increase alcholism in this country.... I voted to provide better care to our veterans... can all occur in the same vote and all be defensible depending on what your outlook is. Maybe the bill was for increasing the number of vegetables required in school lunches but also authorizing all condiments to be counted as a vegetable (I think Ketchup already is). And maybe it was a rider on something else that said soldiers injured in service to the country deserve care for their injuries along with a shot of Johnny Walker now and then. Being a scotch man, and a veteran you vote for it because the real gist of the legislation is to update VA hospitals and hire more doctors. Maybe the reason you voted for all of the above is that they were attachments to some other bill that was legislative hot water if you didn't climb on board.
The entire system is almost rigged to give you wiggle room to be the good person in one place, but also give your opponent some amunition. I wonder how many times the political parties sit around and decide which of their people will vote this way or that way in order to keep them out of trouble. Most of the time I'd guess. Says a lot for your representative, doesn't it?
How many times you listened to someone bitch about a relationship, listened to all the bad bad bad things the other did, then happened to run across the other later and just be round-housed by the fact that they're not some grinning ogre who totes off small children, raids villages at night and eats eyeballs?
Yeah, some facts come out. Call it Murphy's 9th law though that facts always play a backseat to what people want to believe and when they can't find supporting facts, they will do their damndest to twist reality into something that they want it to be, rather than what it is.
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--'Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform' - Mark Twain
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