April 30, 2004

Where falsity enters

Mickey Kaus points out that Paul Krugman's column may conflate lying and self-deception:


In doing this, Krugman attributes conscious deception to people (the Bushies) who are probably (in reality and Orwellian theory) guilty only of self-deception. This tendency--to call opponents liars when they're better described as self-deceivers--is one reason Krugman's almost always preaching to the choir (and not doing nearly as much damage to Bush as he could be doing). ...

I definitely agree with Kaus that this kind of misunderstanding--and self-deception--is rife. It's much easier for people to lie incrementally, a little to themselves and a little to others, because of the way our brains work.

And, one might add, that there's some powerful, emergent force acting upon our group of people that tends to break them into starkly opposed such that Krugman sees lies instead of incremental deception.

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