“Lying is more than deception; the liar wants the unreal to be accepted as actuality, so he sets about to establish as true what is not actually the case, not really real.

A lie by a public authority is meant to be accepted by the public as an “official” truth concerning the “real world.”

At bottom, lying is the expression of a will to power. My power is increased if you accept “a picture of the world which is a product of my will.”
-Sheldon Wolin

𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕖 𝔸𝕟𝕒𝕣𝕔𝕙𝕪