I believe Brecht's The Seven Deadly Sins provides a pretty good
commentary on this process. robert
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> In the US cheating and lying in service to the empire is acceptable and
> encouraged although there is a preference not to have the falsehoods
> publicly exposed.
> Those behaviours also encouraged if used to make gobs of money as long
> as you don't cheat and lie to members of the ruling class.
> Fleecing public funds and fleecing the working class by deception is
> considered virtuous.
> The exemptions on the prohibitions against lying and cheating are so
> numerous as to make the idea of a general prohibition against such
> behaviour pretty meaningless.
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> John Thornton
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