One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word ‘I.’
Misleading
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
You don’t need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don’t need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact.
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.