When the lies get big enough, the whole world spoils. But if you look close enough,the biggest of lies is composed of smaller lies, and those are composed of even smaller lies--and the smallest of lies is where the big lie starts. It is not the mere misstatement of fact. It is instead an act that has the aspect of of the most serious conspiracy ever to possess the race of man. It's seeming innocuousness, its trivial meanness, the feeble arrogance that gives rise to it, the apparently trivial circumventing of responsibility that it aims at--these all work effectively to camouflage the true nature, its genuine dangerousness, and its equivalence with the great acts of evil that man perpetrates and often enjoys. Lies corrupt the world.
Worse, that is their intent.
pg. 228-229; 12 Rules For Life, An Antidote to Chaos; Jordan B. Peterson