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HIERARCHY 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…