November 10, 2010
I was watching this TV show that I had never seen before the other night called "Lie to Me.*" I didn't think much of it at first, it had the guy with the British accent calling out people who he thought were lying by studying their reactions, facial expressions, and emotions. Although I admittedly did not think of it then, as I sit here and write this now I am wondering how Primal cultures dealt with lying. Since, as discussed in class, so much of their culture is based orally, where do lies come in? It seems that they would have much more weight then lies today, especially if they were embedded within a story about the culture.
I am sure they had their white lies too that were less of an issue, but without any type of written truth that could be used to verify information, a lie would stick and possibly change the course, or the remembered past, of a culture. It seems dangerous to me to have so much depend on oral traditions and makes me wonder how embedded lies are in both oral and written traditions.
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