Lies are the very fabric of power, and power is in control of information. Most of official recorded history is a lie because of that fact. I was just reading case for Truman's exoneration on the basis of misinformation: he somehow was misled about the fact actual human beings lived in Hiroshima, and the same for Nagasaki. But his own quotes make it obvious he new the dreadful destructive power of the nuclear bomb, and what it would do to the Japanese: it had already been tested in New Mexico on 88 cattle (and some humans at a distance): did he figure we were made of different stuff? ForCS. It's really all so sickening. The constant lies, and undignified, mad grappling for power, even if that last, golden bauble comes with explosive power the world has never seen, and from which we will never recover.