"Lying isn't just bad for the soul, it's bad for effectiveness at dealing with reality!"

Steve Sailer writes,

But in the meantime, the U.S. could hire collaborators to pretend to fight for whatever the Americans were in favor of at the moment—democracy, globalism, women going unmasked, everybody going masked, gay rights, black lives matter, you name it, somebody in Afghanistan would figure out an angle on how to skim off the budget for it. For twenty years, the leading economic activity in Afghanistan has been stuff falling off the back of American supply trucks.

Lying isn’t just bad for the soul, it’s bad for effectiveness at dealing with reality.

After 1991, we of course stopped winning wars. But now we can’t even avoid losing in spectacularly humiliating fashion.

If there’s anything we’ve learned about the deep state from this episode, it’s that it’s real…and it’s inept.

Read more here: https://www.takimag.com/article/our-culture-of-lying/