That's a fair point and I guess the broader point of the "noble lie" is that it enables the permission structure thing on a broader scale. As long as nobody points out what's really going on, Leave voters won't have to swallow their pride in order to vote for Labour. Like the polite fiction of everyone in a party pretending a politician …
That's a fair point and I guess the broader point of the "noble lie" is that it enables the permission structure thing on a broader scale. As long as nobody points out what's really going on, Leave voters won't have to swallow their pride in order to vote for Labour. Like the polite fiction of everyone in a party pretending a politician is resigning for noble reasons, even when everyone really knows it is because there's a major scandal brewing.
That's a fair point and I guess the broader point of the "noble lie" is that it enables the permission structure thing on a broader scale. As long as nobody points out what's really going on, Leave voters won't have to swallow their pride in order to vote for Labour. Like the polite fiction of everyone in a party pretending a politician is resigning for noble reasons, even when everyone really knows it is because there's a major scandal brewing.