This is because the mob is made up of cynics; for them, everything is a lie anyway.
It's not always possible to sort out fact from fiction, but to believe that everything is a lie is to know nothing.
I'm not saying everything's a lie about everybody, because some of the stuff he said was pretty convincing because he offered details.
Welcome to your new life, where everything is a lie and cash is king.
("No matter what's written there, it's a total lie, even the person's name, lie, lie, lie, lie, everything's a lie," he once told New York Magazine).
We all have to get a little more skeptical about the links we come across on a day-to-day basis, which means assuming everything is a lie unless it's confirmed by multiple reputable sources.
Arguably, you shouldn't trust any source because everything is a lie and human perception decieves us continually, but for the sake of culture, let's pretend we need to assume certain characteristics about reality in order to participate in verbal dialogue.
There is a lot of pop psychology floating around that's all "ooh, people only put the best representations of themselves online so it's not a true snapshot" and "ooh, envying other people's lives will only make you more depressed about your own" and "ooh, everything is a lie" but holy shit how many quaint countryside gastropubs do you go to each week?
That was the moment when I suddenly realized that everything was a big lie.
For many, it brought to mind the time, thought long past, when so much of life in Hungary was defined by rumors and lies, when everything was a game of pretend and make-believe.
