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The A1 Verse: Speaking “truth” to power

By Thomas Gaulkin | January 11, 2021

Illustration by Thomas Gaulkin / Vectorstock

Every so often, a story published on the front page of the New York Times is so well written, meaningful, and appropriate to the Bulletin’s concerns that small snippets of it, properly chosen and arranged, produce something more than journalism, something that approaches … poetry. That blessed coincidence occurred January 11, 2021.

We suspect it’ll occur again.


How Leaders Bend Reality With Big Lies

(from the original by Andrew Higgins)

C A B L E
– – – – – –
TO: POWER (STRANGE AND DISTURBING)

ANYTHING,
NO MATTER HOW UNTRUE,
BECOMES TRUE.

ALL THE POWERS OF TRUTH 
HAUNTING AMERICA :

LYING RECOMMENDED !
LIE WHEN TELLING THE TRUTH !

PEOPLE DON’T LIKE BEING LIED TO,
BUT ALLOW THEMSELVES 
TO BE DECEIVED.

TO BE CONTINUED

* * *


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Jenny Agutter fan
3 years ago

“Make the lie big, but keep it simple.” – Joseph Goebbels

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