Comment by landryraccoon

> A decade later, participation in elite circles like media, academia, and politics is based on how convincingly one can be seen to parrot obvious untruths, not because anyone believes them at all, but because it signals status to be able to lie to the faces of people who know you are doing it, and still say nothing.

I don’t understand this. Can you elaborate on what untruths you mean? Who’s parroting these lies?