Today is April First.
Be aware that anytime today when you read something, hear something or see something you should take a second to remind yourself that the odds are it is a fabrication, one that is either so brazen and titanic in its scope that you cannot believe anyone would expect you to fall for it (thus giving it a weird kind of credibility) or so plausible in its larger details that you fail to notice that certain less significant aspects of it are full of falsehood.
These lies, both large and small, aim to take advantage of the innate trust we are all born with as human beings and somehow maintain even as we wend our way through a world riddled with deceit and prevarication.
They use our basic decency as a Trojan horse, and once they are welcome inside our heads they do what they can to manipulate us, to make us follow the rules they give us and buy the things they want us to buy and go about our miserable lives without the hope or realization that everything could—and should—be better.
Do not forget: Every single thing you see today is a lie.
Also it is April Fools’ Day, so there’s gonna be a lot of other stupid shit cluttering things up too.
Every time I read this I laugh. I also hear Foghorn Leghorn’s voice, especially when I read the word “prevarication.” (Link)