The advantage to lies told in abundance is that you don’t have to remember the ones you told. You can challenge each one as someone brings up an alternative truth, pointing out how preposterous each one is. Somewhere in there is a truth worth having.
ABC has a story saying there are 24 versions of the Russian fairy tales on how the Skripals were poisoned with a nerve agent in England. I read about one of them the other day and laughed out loud. They are just shooting them out, doing what we used to call “sheep dipping” hoping one would catch on and become a good alternative to the world fact that Russians did it with nerve gas made by them. They were even brazen enough to demand they be allowed to participate in the investigation (they would provide an antidote to the poison), but that was voted down by other UN members.
Over the weekend I read a story inferring that both of the Skripals were OK, and had always been OK. They were hidden and made to look like they were poisoned. I liked that one, but it doesn’t align very well with the facts. That is the point, of course. When the number and type of lies don’t matter, imagination is the most important ingredient. Aliens will be next.
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