Are we, with all of our technological, scientific, medical, and whatever advances we have that makes us superior humans, just as easy to dupe as the ancient commoners?

I heard that there was an incident in Alexandria where Ptolemy (pick one) put the city on terror alert orange because of a publicity stunt put on by ancient pornographers. What a bunch of dopes.

But of course, we are so much more enlightened in our day because we went through a period of enlightenment, which puts us at the top of cynicism as we pour over contemperary texts with the most critical eye.

In our day, no one would ever be duped by someone who claimed to have wrote memoirs that turned out to be nothing more than ficticious drivel.

I present you with an exerpt from James Frey's latest book, "Lesson Learned".

From Chapter One - "I left the Harpo studios in Chicago in a state of shock. When I accepted Oprah's invitation to go back on her show and tell my side of the story, I didn't think that I would be treated so unfairly. I felt as if a couple of angry skate punks who "didn't like my attitude" ambushed me. It reminded me of the time I was ambushed by a bunch of angry skate punks who "didn't like my attitude". I had awoken from a nineteen-day bender to find myself floating face down in a canal in Amsterdam. I came to with a knife in my chest and a tattoo on my left nipple which mysteriously read: "100% Goth!!" I blurbled something in Arabic to a passing man on his bike and he was decent enough to stop and fish me out. After drying myself off, I raped him and stole his bike. I regret this behavior now of course. I knew it was wrong then too but that's what makes me such a monster. Or rather made me such a monster. That and all the drugs and alcohol I was addicted to. I'm better now thanks to rehab. But that's an entirely different true story, which has already appeared in my last book, "An Unverifiable True Remembering".