The original Pinocchio was a dark parable about a world of lies

The tale of Pinocchio is remembered for one moral: lie and your nose grows. Per Boing Boing, late tech writer Om Malik argued the story's true meaning was far darker. Before Disney streamlined it, Carlo Collodi's eighteen eighty-one serial depicted a bleak society where deception has gone ambient — where courts punish victims, experts are decorative, and spectacle matters more than accountability.

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