WHEN DID WE STOP ENFORCING TRUTH, AND WHY? When did we, the aristocracy, stop en

WHEN DID WE STOP ENFORCING TRUTH, AND WHY?

When did we, the aristocracy, stop enforcing truth telling at the point of a sword? Seriously. When and why?

Did we hold truth as a life or death standard only between ourselves?

Did we extend the franchise without extending the requirement for truth telling?

Sigh. We thought it was just property ownership that was required. But property ownership requires truth telling.

We didn’t understand that universal enfranchisement meant opening the pandora’s box of lies.

Or is it worse, in that we could profit from lying? I can’t find that evidence. What I find evidence of, is that the liars found profit in lying to one another.