What A Relief
I have worried about something for a few months. My impression of the president has been of someone who is lying. Mind you I am not one who subscribes to a dogmatic definition of truth. There is no one to one correlation between reality and words. Reality itself varies somewhat person to person. It all depends upon how a brain processes sense experience input. “Reality” is a construction of your mind, the composite built of electrical impulses received from touch, taste, smell, sight and sound, the bodies interface with the external world. So, when we give a account of “reality” there can be no one correct version.
What we mean by lying, or one-who-lies is the deliberate attempt to distort an account of reality with the purpose of doing harm, of exploiting the recipient(s) of the twisted story. Lying is an effort to destroy, to extract unilateral benefit from the credulity of the Mark. Or so it seems to me.
Ex FBI director Comey testified yesterday that he took careful notes of conversations with the president because he feared the president would later lie about the conversations. So I am not the only one who picks up that vibe.
But, what a relief! Nothing to worry about.
“No, I can definitely say the president is not a liar.”
—-Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Deputy Press Secretary
It is interesting to note that the presidents personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz made no such blunt assertion in his statement to the press. After all, a lawyer as a member of the institution dedicated to justice which depends upon truthful representation, — is obligated use truthful speech.
