So the Noble Lie was real because some people believed it. But those who told it lied. Moreover they didn't follow it. Moreover they were in fact bad guys. And why is that bad? Because they were caught and now those other bad guys will undermine our values... that we don't have (but we thought we did).
This makes absolutely no sense unless you insert some unfounded premise of national/Western exceptionalism somewhere.
This makes absolutely no sense unless you insert some unfounded premise of national/Western exceptionalism somewhere.