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The Surprising Truth About Lying
Henry, Lina, and Vincent watched the broadcast in
the bunker, the cheap pizza box forgotten on the floor.
The elderly Secretary-General, his face pale and eyes
sunken, read the final decree: "Effective immediately,
all global institutions, public corporations, and
governing bodies are legally required to report on their
functional reality with absolute, unqualified veracity.
The public has chosen Courage Over Comfort. May
God help us all."
The final sentence was a bitter, broken prayer.
Lina whooped, kicking a broken server rack. "We
did it! It's law, Henry! The era of lying is over!"
Vincent simply bowed his head, his hands clasped,
murmuring, "The struggle is won. Now the real
suffering begins."
Henry felt nothing like triumph. He felt a deep,
sickening lurch. They had won the war against lies, but
they hadn't won the war against human nature.
The world's first true test of the Truth Law was
scheduled for the next morning: a televised, mandatory
"Honest Audit" of Nexus 7, one of the three banks
exposed in the Motherlode, now functionally
mandated to reveal its true systemic position.
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