And after all what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
Tell the truth work hard and come to dinner on time.
I think it has other roots has to do in part with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs inequality of possibility and chance inequality of goods allotted to us a kind of general racist unjust attitude that is pervasive.