Everybody Knows

by Jordan Harper

A lie that is never believed by anyone can still have power—if it gives people permission to do what they want to do anyway.

Somebody somewhere catches lightning in a bottle—and all over town people run out and they buy bottles.

“The lie we tell ourselves is that anything other than power is power. Good intentions aren’t power. Pretty words aren’t power. Lies aren’t power either—it’s how loud you can broadcast them.” “What about the truth? Is the truth power?” “Dan taught me a long time ago. ‘It’s not that the truth isn’t important. It just doesn’t matter.’”

You know the difference between a million and a billion? A million seconds is eleven days. A billion seconds is thirty-two years.