🎭 “Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.” — Robert Brault There’s an art to wearing a mask. We start young, practicing in small ways — the “I’m fine” mask, the “everything’s under control” mask, the “happy … Continue readingPerfect Lies – Honest Eyes – The Masks We Wear and the Eyes That Still See Us
You ever notice how folks treat marriage like it’s some kind of magic spell — sprinkle a little rice, slap on a ring, and suddenly two perfectly flawed human beings are supposed to turn into saints? That’s a fine bit of storytelling, right up there … Continue readingThe Way it is Because it is the Way We Are: Infidelity, and the Truth We Don’t Want to Admit
“Truth is a precious thing, but in the age of AI, it’s been taken hostage, wrapped in deepfakes, and sold to the highest bidder.” We’ve long known that people will believe anything if it’s said with enough confidence. But now, thanks to artificial intelligence, that … Continue readingThe Growing Threat of AI-Driven Influence Operations
DANGER – this post may make your head explode. I started and it got out of control. Doublespeak is a form of language that deliberately distorts, obscures, or reverses the meaning of words to mislead or manipulate people. It often involves euphemisms, jargon, or ambiguous … Continue readingDoublespeak
Well, you see, any good story is like a river—there’s what you can see on the surface, and then there’s all the swirling currents down below, hidden from view. And this is doubly true for stories about war. There’s the war we all recognize, the … Continue readingThe Wilderness of Mirrors – Lies, Truths, Half-Truths and WAR that you encounter every day
Well now, let me tell you straight and plain, These tales of right and wrong, they’re vain. For good and evil, black and white, Ain’t nothin’ but a trick of light. Folks love to think they know the score, But truth, my friend, is something … Continue readingSeeing Beyond the Truth