Everyone lies
We lie all the time. No one ever tells the truth. The whole truth. You can’t. We lie to each other, we lie to ourselves, we lie when we are awake and we lie when we are asleep. Some of us are just better at it than others.
Mark Twain said in his essay On the Decay of the Art of Lying “that an awkward, unscientific lie is often as ineffectual as the truth.”
I would contend that much of what we say to ourselves is a lie. “I can’t do that” or “No one likes me”. Maybe your little voice in your head says “you big dummy!” or “you are such a klutz!”. All of those things are lies. Some would say it’s a self-fulfilling prophesy when you say those things. I would say to you that what we say inside our heads and outside to other matters.
Politicians lie. We know that is true, don’t we. Obama lies, Bush lied, Reagan lied, Nixon lied. Maybe the only one that ever told the truth was Lincoln but I doubt that too. Hitler lied. He was a politician first. I just finished reading a book by Andy Andrews called “How to you kill 11 Million people“. The short answer is that you ‘lie to them’.
Our politicians are telling us that the tax code is too complex and they want to change it. There are just 545 people involved in that decision and they don’t really want to change it or they would. They tell us the spending has to stop or we need to spend more but they can’t both be right and I am guessing they are all lying. They talk about cutting spending but what they are really doing is just cutting the increase in spending. I am tired of being lied to.
Read the book by Andy and you tell me if its true or not. It is a good place to start but we can’t stop at just reading the book. I’m not sure what the next steps are but I intend to keep thinking (and blogging) about it for now. I find it fascinating. We have an election coming. Read the book.
Thanks for listening,
Jerry Robertson