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We keep hearing a recurring refrain these days: How can people not accept facts and deny reality? Why do people believe that election officials are lying about the election being fair?
Why indeed? While the current crop of âdenied truthsâ seem incomprehensible to most Americans, it is just our latest preferred fiction.
Letâs start close to home. When settlers expanded into New England they needed a rationalization for their actions. They couldnât very well say âWe have to murder everyone who tries to prevent us from stealing their landâ as it would clash with their religious views and the teachings of Jesus. Instead they raised cries about unprovoked assaults threatening their innocents. They told themselves the lie that native peoples were savages who need to be extirpated from the earth. Then they could feel that they were doing the Lordâs work as they burned towns and murdered âindians