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The Surprising Truth About Lying
“The hardliners found you, Henry,” she whispered.
“The remaining purist chapters of The Truth Collective,
the ones who still believe in total purity, they tracked
the source of The Palliative. They know it came from
here.”
The message was being pushed onto every
functioning screen in the world, filtered instantly by
the still-pure fringe elements of The Gaze. It was a
global condemnation:
URGENT GLOBAL ALERT: TREASON AGAINST
THE MANDATE
TARGET: Henry F. Talbot, former Integrity
Architect.
CRIME: Introduction of The Palliative, a concealed
risk-mitigation algorithm designed to reinstate
systemic Comfort over Courage. Talbot has proven
himself to be the ultimate liar, seeking to betray the
new social contract for personal power. He is now
officially designated THE ULTIMATE HYPOCRITE.
MANDATE: No remaining member of The Truth
Collective shall aid Talbot or accept any solution that
involves a Tiered Truth System.
The label, The Ultimate Hypocrite, was perfect. It
was cold, precise, and utterly damning. Henry had
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