BILL MOYERS: In August of 1972, Richard Nixon, President Nixon, had a press conference which you watched on television. ROGER BOISJOLY: Which was worth in excess of $1 billion. The Truth About Pathological Lying. BILL MOYERS: [voice-over] The third-ranking member of NASAs launch chain of command participated in the conference call and heard the warnings. BOY: Itd be a lie, but itd be a good lie. It was war and it wasnt. We grow up not wanting that particular role in life. Its easier on your memory, and you can always claim you were going to tell the person later, so youve got a way out. A person who lies to someone is not considered to be a mental illness simply because he or she is a symptom of other mental health disorders. Its because were afraid. Deduce that a circle and the graph of a polynomial of degree 3 intersect at most six times. SAM DASH: We would call Liddy in executive session. WebThe No. BILL MOYERS: And these were people youd worked with. PAUL EKMAN: I do think that on a personal level lying is a slippery slope. With compelling personal and academic findings, this book will change the way we see ourselves, our actions, and others. You were the enemy. Join the CNBC Panel. In some ways even more susceptible. t bear to see that you look away from, that you dont notice and dont notice that you dont notice. A person who lies to someone is not considered to be a mental illness simply because he or she is a symptom of other mental health disorders. A circle and a parabola intersect at most four times. Hes only sending 50,000 over. PAUL EKMAN: Its just as much a lie. Based mostly on the research of Dr. Dan Ariely, Professor of Psychology and Truth. PAUL EKMAN: So why didnt you tell the truth? Hawks believed he would escalate the war, doves thought he would limit it. It was for an overriding good. In an age of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. You survey the first 15 students who arrive at a band class. The true values, the deep values. In 1963 John F. Kennedy had said the spearhead of aggression in Vietnam had been blunted. While most of the liars shown in the documentary paid a price for their untruths, publicist and marketer Ryan Holiday is an exception. It cost the entire nation a measure of confidence and prestige. Using first person testimonials, the documentary shows a wide range of lying folks who were caught and forced to face the consequences. Remember when Dwight Eisenhower made his wonderful speech about the dangers of the military industrial complex? The reason I talk to myself is because Im the only one whose answers I accept.. Its a disaster, a horrible, terrible disaster, but not an accident. PAUL EKMAN: If you yourself had deceived yourself which is, of course, the very worst price to ever pay you yourself no longer have the information, and you dont even know that youre engaging in deception. BILL MOYERS: [voice-over] The Challenger disaster cost Roger Boisjoly his job. Write down the ten commandments and then give exercise where they could cheat. Can you explain your conclusions using an algebraic argument? If you have a belief, what happens is you ignore any evidence that disputes it, and you remember and you exaggerate everything that supports it. BILL MOYERS: [voice-over] But the tunnel grew longer and the light dimmer. When you said, Im not going to go along with this? From cheating on taxes and in romance to telling the police officer who pulled us over that we didn't realize how fast we were going, we are all lying all over the place all the time. And the fact is that any action that would have led the American people, or the public mind, to perceive that we were about to go to war in Vietnam or that he was pulling the plug on Vietnam would have destroyed the Great Society. BILL MOYERS: How do we do that? And this again IS a form of deception. Healing is different. BILL MOYERS: What did you think about that? Yesterday, EthicalSystems.org collaborator Dan Ariely, came to New York to participate in the 11th annual Games for Change Festival. It was a lie that I learned to tell myself so well, and so deeply imbedded, from babyhood. Thats almost a third of the total number of enemy captured during 1965. BILL MOYERS: [voice-over] After the hearings Boisjoly and fellow engineer Arnie Thompson were reassigned. 44 West 4th Street KMC7-150 Im still not sure all these years later that Lyndon Johnson was ever clear in his own mind exactly where it would end. BILL MOYERS: Such as your fathers alcoholism, your mothers stupor? And he responded that he was appalled by Thiokots recommendation. And there are so many Issues densely packed. SAM DASH: As weve learned in the whole line of history of freedom, you never win the battle once. BILL MOYERS: So this kind of deception requires collusion? The truth is that lies get a bad rap despite being an inevitable and often useful part of every human beings social arsenal. Deception covers everything from small white lies to the large lies of the "winning class" who have more wealth than the entire bottom 90 percent combined. Marshalling evidence from his findings and interviews, he presents case studies of an administrator at a top university who lied on her resume, a former NBA referee who bet on games he was officiating, a professional cyclist who used drugs to enhance his performance in races, a mother who fibbed about living at her father's address in order to get her children in a better school, a married woman with six children who deceived her husband about the extra-marital affairs she was having, and a Wall Street trader who used his insider information to make big money. BILL MOYERS: [voice-over] The Watergate crowd will tell you that the first lie was a small one, the second was bigger, the third was giant. Johnson was very clever about the Americanization of the war. Additionally, people may not always be aware of when they're lying or may not consider certain types of dishonesty to be "lies." BILL MOYERS: [voice-over] Robert Boisjoly was an engineer at Morton Thiokol, the company that makes the solid rocket boosters for the space shuttle. Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at February 28, 2023 06:05 PM (vcOmj) Confidently getting into the van. CHILDREN: Yes. Its a lonely role. LAWRENCE MULLOY, NASA: That local ambient temperature will be in a tank condition it will be below the general ambient, because of the effects of the cryogens in the external tank, and the heat short that exists through the attachments to the SRV and the wind blowing the cold air around the SRV. They suppressed all their doubts, they censored themselves, they did all the things that would make the operative belief seem like the truth, masquerade as truth. At one time or another, most of us have deceived someone else a friend, colleague or a loved one. However, if a person lies excessively and causes significant problems in their personal or professional lives, they may require professional help. Almost everyone else in the film does. What about politically? BILL MOYERS: He just told the press you had done a report. DAN GOLEMAN: There are two points at which people are most likely to tell the truth after theyve been part of some complicitous lie. On a lighter note, he says that he has made a pact with himself always to tell people when they have spinach caught in their teeth. Warner Bros. ROBERT HOTZ: They had the illusion that the shuttle would be a space airliner, a cargo truck with a regularity and economy that time has proved was a grand illusion. [crosstalk]. Speaking over the phone for our interview, Ariely says not to use white lies, however, for exclusively selfish reasons. Not all lies are equal or damaging. But as the traveler sets out he begins to sink. It was a lie that I believed about myself to myself inside myself. With the support and compassionate of others we are allowed to speak the truth without rebuke. BOY: Once I broke a window, and then I was I kind of think, you know, I lied, but then I decided to tell the truth. But like a family in denial over a loved ones addiction, America often refuses to face the painful truth about itself. So, everyone., Dis(Honesty) The Truth About Lies by Yael Melamede doesnt flinch from revealing what turns our abuse of the truth into ugly messes someone else has to clean up, Spoiler alert: you will realize youve lied at least once today., See this movie. BILL MOYERS: When was the moment you turned around? And on this side theres only one. LYNDON B. JOHNSON: After this past week of deliberations, I have concluded that it is not essential to order reserve units into service now. In some ways its very helpful and in many ways its destructive. He said, John, this is something you shouldnt have anything to do with. And I didnt. JOHN DEAN: Well, Im sure some of them to this day feel that way. Do you say, Hes not here.? And it is not an easy thing to do. Nobody knows how to reestablish trust. . DAN GOLEMAN: Self-deception is motivated by self-protection. It is meant to encourage meaningful and thoughtful discussions about our (dis)honest behavior. DAN GOLEMAN: The public mind. Harsh Truth #1: Toddlers Cant Lie A two-year-old might say they didnt eat And it became very obvious that they were seeking some information to put on a piece of paper that would justify the decision to launch. Their answer was the shuttle. And I discovered that when you put some pressure on it for a while and then undo it, it maintains it doesnt stretch back, it stays the same dimension. Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Were afraid were going to get in trouble. Well, when he did that, he removed from NASA management all the technical-ese that they were trying to, you know, skirt around and confuse the public and the press with. Sustaining public opinion became LBJs consuming passion, optimism his blind spot. ALLAN McDONALD: Id made the direct statement that if anything happened to this launch I sure wouldnt want to be the person that had to stand in front of a board of inquiry. It wasnt like a lie. A person who lies to someone is not considered to be a mental illness simply because he or she is a symptom of other mental health disorders. There was one more chance to avoid disaster. People lie for various reasons, such as to avoid punishment, to gain advantage, or to protect someone's feelings. In other words, for a few seconds at least and more seconds than that theres no resilience in this particular material when its at a temperature of 32 degrees. We dont want to get punished. What have we learned from the lies of our collective history? Since the making of this film, is Ariel lying less than he has previously? WebThis page is a transcript for "Lies". DAN GOLEMAN: In therapy, the courage to finally speak the truth is a struggle to acknowledge reality. Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist theyre honest about everything. I know our mangers felt the pressure. CNBC Councils. In addition to that, within our own staff under my direction, Counsel to the President Mr. Dean has conducted a complete investigation and I can say categorically that his investigation indicates that no one in the White House staff, no one . George Bush, the present president, was the Republican National Chairman at the time of Watergate and defended Richard Nixon right up until the end. BILL MOYERS: But soon we would be spending more for Vietnam than for the entire welfare program. BILL MOYERS: When you sat there telling the truth about the men you worked for, including the President, you had to know that this would bring the White House down. BILL MOYERS: [voice-over] Boisjoly sent the memo to his boss. The same with any collective. BILL MOYERS: [voice-over] In the White House, Nixon fostered the warlike mentality of us vs. them. Ariely is very impressive in his Ted talk clips, especially when he is explaining the widespread use of "the Fudge factor," the paradoxical aspect of human nature where people think of themselves as honest and inherently good people while lying in order to selfishly advance themselves, the fall-out from conflicts of interest, the contagion of deception, an example of a virtuous lie, and the lack of difference in the level of dishonesty among men, women, cultures and nations. And then the stakes switch, because then the group they want to join is the outsiders, not the insiders. Lying and Stealing Encyclopediacom. BOY: I found out that my fathers lied to me. Whats the motive? Asked to solve as many problems in set time. BILL MOYERS: [voice-over] Now in that fateful conference call the NASA managers were telling Morton Thiokol they did not want to delay the launch. It was tough to say that I resented my daughter and even hated her for a while. You cant live as a family if you cant trust each other. And can a nation die of too many lies? The top people. By the time Challenger lifted off at 11:30 the next morning it was still only 36 degrees. I had to do that on a number of occasions in both these operations. This transcript was entered on May 15, 2015. BILL MOYERS: [voice-over] But NASA had other ideas. WebThe Truth About Pathological Lying. It you know, a lie needs both someone who speaks it and someone whos willing to believe it. I do it in terms of conflicts of interest. This is not to say that lying should be rewarded, but that parents need to be honest with themselves about dishonesty and what it represents. A family, an alcoholic family, for instance, doesnt want to face the painful truth, so it looks away at the key facts and it will inflate things that make the people feel, Well, were really a happy, normal family here.. DAN GOLEMAN: A belief is simply a self-confirming theory. No matter what goes on at the job, keep it within the job. The Congress, the GAO is investigating it, two committees on the Hill, three or four committees on the Hill. "Once you understand, you try to cut down ambiguous aspects of life. MAGICIAN: Heres a card with some spots on it. Now, the second issue is who are you lying to? Stated a bit more bluntly, how we can use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies.. Above all, don't lie to yourself. PAUL EKMAN: Richard Nixon failed to recognize that we have a distinction between what is permissible in dealing with an international adversary and with dealing with a domestic rival. And was reeling off to the press all the different investigations that were going on. As we lie more, however, our brains dont become significantly aroused. To market the film "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell," based upon author Tucker Max's bestselling book, most of the press campaign orchestrated by Holiday was predicated upon publicity stunts and manipulating the media and blogosphere into believing that public protests and defaced billboards were a direct result of public anger towards the controversial film. Mr. Murdoch, Father of Fox News and Father of Lies may be a GOAT Greatest of All Timein his chosen profession of reducing journalism to lies for the single purpose of appealing to the resentments and racism, hurt and lie-mongering of citizens in order to make profits. Dr. DAN GOLEMAN: The fear is that if I speak the truth, a] everyone will hate me, I wont be loved anymore; and b] the familys going to dissolve and shatter our reality, our shared reality. Pres. You hadnt. In this broadcast well look at how deception has influenced some of the major events of our recent past, and how self-deception shapes our personal lives and the public mind. BILL MOYERS: [voice-over] The war cost LBJ the office he so long had coveted. WebTranscript Enlarge this image In a $1.6 billion defamation suit, Dominion Voting Systems argues that Fox Corp. bosses Rupert Murdoch (left) and Lachlan Murdoch (right) were Web(Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies Directed by Yael Melamede An insightful and entertaining documentary about the epidemic of lying and cheating afoot in the United You watched on television then the stakes switch, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist theyre honest everything! 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