fascinating thing
practitioners of these kinds
of fabrications
is how easily
disprovable their falsehoods
turn out to be so
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The fascinating thing about Santos, and other practitioners of these kinds of fabrications, is how easily disprovable their falsehoods turn out to be.
If compulsive lying has its roots in something deeper and more complicated than mere self-advancement, you assume the risk-taking is part of the appeal.
Psychologically, Santos’s claims appear akin in scale, impulse and thrill-seeking to a man running across a football field naked, each more lurid and exposing than the last.
As it appeared in the article, George Santos’s lies are so big you almost have to admire them by Emma Brockes in the Guardian.
Ms. Brockes closes with:
It’s a serious thing to mislead the electorate and lie to members of Congress, with a much more damaging fallout than the lies of a fake heiress trying to score a free holiday.
Still, in both cases, the fascination with the workings of compulsive liars is the same.
Scrutinising photos of Santos’s blank and babyish face triggers the vertiginous possibility inherent in all really big grifts – and one, possibly, deserving of sympathy, although who knows – that he has come to believe all this stuff himself.
There are a lot of $5 dollar words in this article and I have to admire how Ms. Brockes weaves them into the narrative with seemingly so little effort.
As for the subject of the piece, well, with so many liars in America, don’t they deserve someone in Congress too?
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