Ass Talk, the Benevolent Lie.

I use the expression “talk out of one’s ass” exclusively to describe the benevolent lie, the one where someone claims to do something for a good, generous or helpful reason when in fact they are doing it for themselves. It’s the lie of altruistic thieves. It is and has been used by countries, groups and individuals. Empires, and even lesser aggressors, typically describe their conquests in terms of necessity, help or “saving” the victims of their conquests. Individuals do things for their children; religious groups for the sake of God; politicians for the economy; businesses to satisfy their costumers, and philanthropists of pure generosity. All this giving and all this help seems somehow to benefit the giver rather than the recipient of the “gifts”.

Fake news? It’s a fake world, a bullshit world with mountains of hypocrisy and deserts of despair where gardens of love should be. A world where an itsy-bitsy, teeny-tiny portion of Homo sapiens own more than half the resources of the world, and talk out of their asses to such a degree that they pollute the heavens and heat the skies. A world where truth-tellers are persecuted, ignored or ridiculed; a world where justice rides on the spirit of the times to deliver its “gift” to Homo sapiens, who will receive what they deserve and no more stinking talk will be heard.

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”Even ladies of class talk out of their ass. ”
Dartwill Aquila

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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.