Conscious Mendacity

Courtesy Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer  Sun, 11/08/2009 - 11:19am

From my recently kindled copy of Eating the Dinosaur , Chuck Klosterman is interviewing Errol Morris , the documentary filmmaker, on the subject of interviewing people:

What’s more interesting to you: someone who lies consciously, someone who lies unconsciously, or someone who tells a relatively mundane version of the truth?

Here’s a snippet of Morris’ answer:

…I read a piece about modern forms of lie detection – methods that go beyond...


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