He can’t possibly know that anything is going to be okay. But that’s what we do sometimes, we lie to each other, even when everyone knows that lying is what’s going on. Sometimes we call this politeness, sometimes we call it optimism, sometimes we call it support, sometimes we call it politics or business or negotiation or public relations or marketing, sometimes we call it just doing our jobs. Sometimes we compound the lies we tell each other with lies we tell ourselves, denying that what we’re doing is lying, or denying that lying is bad, or denying that lying has consequences. Denying that
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