Partly because lying is so easy.

And truth has vanished by fiat.

And people can’t tell the difference, and don’t care.

And if you want to influence people to change for the better, and I do, you have to catch them where they are.

I can internalize the truth, digest it with fact and history, and lie for survival.

I know the world is tilting to the right, and we’re falling off.

I don’t, of course, mean “lie” in the biblical sense of “lie down,” with the lion and the lamb, or, more intimately, where the mind is less involved. “Come lie with me.”

I come from old school. We learned, and used to know, the difference. Right from wrong. Good from bad. Law from un. Love from hate. Yes from no.

It’s a new world, not a better one.

Not yet.

I can say the world is flat, because I know so many people are.