I hadn't read newseek in years. This weekend I took the fiance to her stylist and was stuck there for a while. Not a 'Field and Stream' in the place. I read newsweek with a fascination...I had not known how horrendously biased it was. Everything reeked of, I don't want to say lefty partisanship, because it was deeper than that...it was the philosophical premises underlying socialism/communism/leftism/liberalism. Every sentence. I hadn't known how bad it was, as I abandoned it long before.
BINGO!
And of course the mentalities that Newsweek plays to, also pay attention to so-called psychologists (and typical DemocRAT mentalities) like David Livingstone Smith that are just as screwed up as they are.
In his new book, "Why We Lie -- The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind", he gives people permission to cheat in their marriages because it's perfectly NORMAL for human beings to do that and then to lie to their spouses about it. It's not their fault - they're "just human".
Yes friends -- the way this guy is able to assuage his own guilt feelings / conscience and 'help' others to do the same (for all sorts of things they think and do that they KNOW are wrong), is to say that our minds are based in biology.
Therefore anyone that claims to know that lying and cheating is wrong, and feels guilty when he does it, is mentally ill and needs his help.
Quoting Smith, himself (from my videotape of his appearance on Fox yesterday promoting his book):
"We are BIOLOGICALLY WIRED TO LIE. The human mind is a deceptive mind and WE'RE BUILT to lie."
What a way to drum up business from the guilt-ridden, self-hating victim mentalities looking for excuses.
He is confident that the relativistic, shallow mentalities who will rush out to buy his book will never think of this:
Even though he is 'built to lie', and people should expect lies from him because he can't help it, Smith assures them he is telling the truth this time (in his book).
But wait!!! He also says that "the very best liars actually believe their own lies"!!! Hahahahaha
Ignorance is curable with education --- emotional immmaturity is cured by 'growing up' --- but STUUUUPID is forever.
bttt
FYI, Newsweek is the only western magazine sold in the official Communist Party Bookstore in Vientiane, Laos. At least as of two years ago.