A SOCIETY WITHOUT INTEGRITY — WHEN LYING BECOMES A WAY OF LIFE

What is a lie?

It is a conscious failure to tell the truth.

What is truth?

Truth is the apprehension of a concept founded upon credible facts and which comports with reality.

In our daily lives, which do we find in greater abundance, the truth, or the lie?

If people lie, logic suggests that the institutions they build also lie. Sociopathic personalities rise to the top of institutions because they meet each others needs and talents.

Our most powerful institutions, government, corporations, religions, lie. They lie in order to preserve the power of those who run the institutions. Money is power. Money begets power.

Follow the money.

Do you and I lie?

Why do we lie?

It’s easy to lie. Difficult to not lie. We lie to save face, to gain advantage, to avoid a discomforting truth for ourselves and for others.

We lie to try and build a false reality for ourselves, a reality that seems to serve our egos better than what we know to be truth.

Lies quickly become habitual. One lie calls for more lies in its support.

We forget we are lying.

Tell a lie often enough and both the lier and those to whom he lies come to believe it is truth.