Comments by "Edward McLaughlin" (@edwardmclaughlin7935) on "Joe Rogan Explains Jussie Smollett to a Guy Who Lives in the Wilderness" video.

This self-deceit is central to the state we're in. Here in UK we have a welfare system that encourages illness. Anyone with an internet connection can find out the symptoms of some condition that precludes working, and feign those symptoms. It's easy enough to do and it's tempting to many. I have known people in the past who have got onto this track - and I noticed something about them. After a while they begin to believe their own fabrication - they perform the act so studiously that it seeps into them - they designate themselves as dependent on medicinal care. In time they adopt the stance and outlook of people who are genuinely in poor condition and they go downhill from there. It's as though when they gave up their truth to themselves, they lost the power to self-direct in any positive way. A relative of mine works in the NHS and she says she and all her co-workers even have a term for these people: they're referred to as 'serial attendees'.
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