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Lying (Rhetoric)
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- Experiential / environmental patterns of successful / rich people (there's a section on bluffing / lying)
Dangers of lying
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/10/20/retired-navy-seal-praising-trump-on-fox-news-was-a-fake/?tid=pm_pop
Garofalo served in the Navy from Sept. 6, 1963, to Sept. 6, 1967, according to military records obtained by the Navy Times. He told the newspaper he has been lying about being a Vietnam veteran and a Navy SEAL for years.
“It got bigger and bigger,” Garofalo told the newspaper in a telephone interview. “What I did I‘m ashamed of, and I didn’t mean to cause so much disgrace to the SEALs.”
How to lie
Lie about something that no one will object to.
Example: Michael Lewis plays up his protagonists, he doesn't tear them down. One case where he ran into trouble was when talking about Burry getting redemptions from Greenblatt; Greenblatt called out Lewis on inaccuracies.
Take something true and exaggerate it
Examples
- Michael Lewis
- Get that quote from someone who says, "He never lies, he just exaggerates."
- L. Ron Hubbard
- Examples:
- 2011.12.21 - Blog - Astounding Science Fiction March 1950 – Intro to Dianetics by John W. Campbell Jr.
- "In a later taped lecture of 18 October 1958, entitled The Story of Dianetics and Scientology, Hubbard lies and says that he had “sold a movie – Dive Bomber” right at the beginning of the War for 10,000 dollars, which he put in a safe deposit box. He also said his movie starred Wallace Beery. There was a movie called Dive Bomber, but it was from a story by Frank Wead – screenplay by Wead and Buckner. It starred Errol Flynn, not Wallace Beery. Apparently, the Errol Flynn archives do contain a reference to Hubbard being paid a small amount simply for the use of the title, which is not how Hubbard is spinning it – as you can see. At any rate, Dive Bomber was a propaganda film, designed to drum up support for World War II, and it turned out to be one of Warner’s biggest hits of 1941, generating a profit in excess of $1 million. Hubbard invents that convoluted explanation to cover how he had the money to buy a yacht basically. In fact, recent evidence shows that Hubbard was only paid $250, and it was, again, just for the use of the title."
- "In a later taped lecture of 18 October 1958, entitled The Story of Dianetics and Scientology, Hubbard lies and says that he had “sold a movie – Dive Bomber” right at the beginning of the War for 10,000 dollars, which he put in a safe deposit box. He also said his movie starred Wallace Beery. There was a movie called Dive Bomber, but it was from a story by Frank Wead – screenplay by Wead and Buckner. It starred Errol Flynn, not Wallace Beery. Apparently, the Errol Flynn archives do contain a reference to Hubbard being paid a small amount simply for the use of the title, which is not how Hubbard is spinning it – as you can see. At any rate, Dive Bomber was a propaganda film, designed to drum up support for World War II, and it turned out to be one of Warner’s biggest hits of 1941, generating a profit in excess of $1 million. Hubbard invents that convoluted explanation to cover how he had the money to buy a yacht basically. In fact, recent evidence shows that Hubbard was only paid $250, and it was, again, just for the use of the title."
- https://scicrit.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/dianetics-as-it-first-appeared-in-astounding-science-fiction/
- 2011.12.21 - Blog - Astounding Science Fiction March 1950 – Intro to Dianetics by John W. Campbell Jr.
- Examples: