Lise Holliker Dykes

…ually a shared set of concerns, such that in mono-discipline conversations much can be left unsaid. One challenge in conversations with people from different disciplines is that they bring different assumptions to the table. Translating across disciplines means clarifying the impact to different people. For people from various disciplines, the consequences of a position or idea may not be self-evident.

Lying is wrong, but party politics is a project of public mythmaking and manipulation so enormous that it crushes the concept of falsehood. In the writer’s room of US politics, the scriptwriters have move beyond lies to the management of truth, the creation of a master story that can explain all the other stories, sweep them up, make us want to turn the page, knowing we can never truly choose our own adventure.