found online by Raymond
From driftglass:
And when you started to notice that, year after year after year, the last resort defection/alibi that every single one of them proffers every single time one of their lies blows up in their face is “Everyone does it”, did you ever bother ask yourself where in the world these people all learned to mindlessly cop the same, identical, reprehensible plea?
Seriously, Matthew, didn’t you ever wonder for a single second to how in the name of Phineas T. Barnum every one of these meatheads all glommed onto the same idea?