Of Lying and the Liar-in-Chief

 I thought today to invite a guest write the blog. From Montaigne’s “On Giving the Lie:” 

“Lying is an ugly vice, which an ancient paints in most shameful colors when he say that it is giving evidence of contempt for God, ad at the same time of fear of me. It is not possible to represent more vividly the horror, the vileness, and the profligacy of it. For what can you imagine uglier than being a coward toward men and bold toward God? Since mutual understanding is brought about solely by way of words, he who breaks his words betrays human society. It is the only instrument by means of which our wills and thought communicate, it is the interpreter of our soul. If it fails us, we have no more hold on each other, no more knowledge of each other, If it deceives us, it breaks up all our relations and dissolves all the bonds of our society.”

 

So, go ahead, vote for the liar in chief. He holds us all in contempt and is prepared to destroy us for his own sick narcissistic egotistical demands. Go ahead. Vote your contempt for yourselves.