Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Once again, the world swings into yet another crisis. Many persons with good intentions intend to reduce the crisis by limiting what other persons can say and write about it. Nothing new here.

We used to have silly liars. The National Enquirer is one great example. Hillary Clinton had an alien baby and the like. Silly lies.

Now we have silly and not-so-silly liars. Those folks spread misinformation, i.e., stuff that isn’t true. The spreaders of such lies may not know the truth, so they merely repeat whatever they hear. Anyways, persons with good intentions react in horror at misinformation. The “masses” (I think I am part of the masses, but I’m not sure as I haven’t checked to see if I am paid up in my masses fees) should not be exposed to such misinformation as the masses will believe the misinformation and flock to where ever it is that Hillary Clinton keeps her alien baby.

And we also have mean liars. These people lie to hurt other people. The mean liars know they are lying, but that doesn’t matter as they will do whatever is required to hurt others. These liars spread disinformation (note it starts with “d” not “m”). Disinformation seeks to hurt. Disinformation creators and spreaders are mean liars.

Persons with good intentions react in horror at the disinformation creators. It seems that lying with great intent is more horrific than lying with small intent. Lying some lies is worse than lying some other lies. I think? Then again, I always thought a liar was a liar, but perhaps I was naive.

Hmmm, seems that don’t have anything new here. Some persons lie “little white lies;” some persons lie bigger lies, and some persons just downright hate others so they lie about them. Perhaps I need to update my dictionary of new words or something. Perhaps I should calibrate my reactions to horrible events and persons. I struggle to keep up with all this new stuff or stuff that isn’t new but some people act as if it is new.

Enough reactionary thoughts of a tired old man.