Truth is a Very Expensive Norm – That’s Why No One Else Does It.

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[H]IERARCHY OF TRUTHFUL CULTURES

• -TRUTHFUL-
  GERMANIC EUROPE (non-ideological)
  ANGLO/AMERICAN (ideological optimism)
  INDIA (utopian idealism and justification)
• -DECEPTIVE-
  JEWISH (circumstantial truth, dual ethics, framing and overloading: pseudoscience and pseudorationalism and informational asymmetry)
  CHINA (creative lying, obscurantism, and delaying, lying as buying time, avoiding conflict, accumulating strength.)
• -DECEITFUL-
  RUSSIA (outright lying and cheating, non-contractual, lying as strength,)
  ISLAM/ARAB (denial of reality, deceit and aggression, lying as heroic.)

I need a third dimension because India and SE Asia are hard to fit in a stack. And the more I work at it the more I admire how Hindus really just don’t connect to reality so much as lie.  It’s a totally different mentality.

Source: Curt Doolittle – TRUTH IS A VERY EXPENSIVE NORM – THATS WHY NO ONE…