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The most outlandish lies can fool even the most intelligent folks. That became apparent when I was a teenager in the 1980s.
I fell for a big one.
He was the cool dad — the one who worked in the music biz and handed out demo cassettes of hot new artists he was shopping around to record labels. We were awe-struck. A bunch of teens on Long Island with access to music from the next Bon Jovi.
You could imagine how much cooler he became when we found out cool dad was on the verge of signing Whitney Houston.
Months later, he still hadn’t signed Houston. The hot new bands he had discovered in shabby night clubs never secured their record deal.
We later learned that cool dad woke up one morning and declared himself an independent music executive. To jumpstart his business, he perpetrated lie upon lie in a scheme to secure “financing” from his rich father in law.
From all accounts, he really did believe he was one hurdle away from achieving greatness. That’s what made his lies hard to detect.
Thirty-five years later, the village schemer still exists, but he’s dwarfed by the gaggle of crackpots hocking conspiracy theories on social…
