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Lying to oneself / self-lie is such an amusing concept - if lying is defined as "saying something knowingly false", once you get rid of that piece of knowledge it stops being a lie. As such, self-lie only keeps being a lie if it's ineffective. It's a lot like you said later on about lies being passed back and forth being an "extension of the above, using an external second party rather than happening solely inside of one brain."
I wonder if it isn't because sometimes saying the truth is far, far more complex than saying some simple lie. It's easy to say this shit like "ivermectin is good against covid!"*, but it's hard to actually dig into what doctors say, and why they say it, to reach conclusions that agree with them.
And typically there won't be any benefit for you to tell the truth - in both cases you'll get people screeching at you ("what do you mean? The water isn't turning the frogs into gays? You should check yourself, you soy-drinking degenerate! Reeee!" versus "you're being a fucking stupid muppet").
No worries - I get that you're being descriptive, not judging.
This makes me wonder if we [people in general] aren't falling into solipsism. As in: "if truth is unreachable, then what's true or false doesn't matter".
*context: dunno in the rest of the world, but at least here in Brazil ivermectin - a parasite medication - was being touted as fighting against COVID (a virotic disease), because of a muppet of a former president. I've had the displeasure to talk with those people, and their reasoning is never something plausible like "it's a side effect" followed by studies, it's consistently ignorance on the difference between parasites and virus.