Birdwalk: { The word because most often begins a lie in English. The reason is simple: it collapses a complexly layered library of causes and involvements into a (usually) one-dimensional unit. A cause! The facile aspects of our personal ego-identification deliver a little reward of chemicals when we do this. The actual behavior is like pretending America has a measurable temperature. With astonishing frequency ‘because’ announces that the speaker is (very often) about to commit this (or another similar) sin. }