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by ominous 3516 days ago
You mean what happens when people dress up and carefully pick photos for work interviews and dates? Or any other infinite social situations?

> The reason we’re such consummate bullshitters is simple: we bullshit for each other. We tweak our stories so that they become better stories. We bend the facts so that the facts appeal to the group. Because we are social animals, our memory of the past is constantly being revised to fit social pressures. [0]

Everything is already fake. Might as well admit it.

[0] - http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2011/10/28/the-falli...