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  When looking for deception, don't look for lies, look for incongruities . They tell you there's a lie, but not exactly where. Lies can be hard to prove, but things that don't fit (incongruities), while weaker, tell you something is amiss.

Anxzia -   the newest medical disease.   Not actual anxiety, it is something of a persistent fear or agitation about current and future states.   Anxzia is the prolonged   condition created by unjustified anxiousness toward possible or plausible outcomes or events.   All of us have this as a pre-condition from time to time, but it is usually quieted as events unfold. Yet, for some, they live in this state, always concerned about a future they can never compute nor understand.   Fact: I just made this up. Yet it does sound like something you might see featured on Dr. Phil or Dr. Oz. Fact: It is certain that some psychologist somewhere, somehow, someway, will make this condition into a career.   TV appearances, books, papers and the like will issue forth in some foamy discourse about this greasy condition.   Such is the progress of modern times, with some researchers equating scholarship with headlines .   As well, we will see lawsuits against companies that their conditions

The world you grew up in is no more.  The world of reasonable honesty and reasonable lies has been replaced by abject dishonesty and blatant lies. Lies.  Yes. People have always told them.  You have told them; so have I.   We need lies; they are a foundational structure of social living.  They both deceive and protect.  Children tell them to their parents to avoid consequences, like punishment.  Adults tell them to their bosses, to enhance their position and/or avoid consequences of poor performance.  Our bosses tell them to their boards to suggest business is good, the project is on target, or the detractors are wrong.  The boards tell them to shareholders to protect their own credibility and most importantly, stock values.   Our politicians tell lies to their constituents, though sometimes innocently with them not actually knowing much more than they've been told.  They enhance their positions to the detraction of their opponents and to the inflation of their personal positi