Liars do only one thing good, they make those who tell the truth that much more honorable. How has it gotten that those who tell lies maintain such influence over the rest of us? How is it that our society has sunk so low that we can only find heroic figures in fallacy? When we do find men and women of honorable character, we seem to dismiss their accomplishments in retrospect to the less honorable undeserving. Our psyches have been found out, we are a species who place the improbable over doing the right thing. What I mean is that the everyday effort many of us make to telling truth in a constant and comprehensive way, ends up subordinate to those who spew untruths of fantastical proportions. We seem to give undue deference to those whose claims somewhat align with our own over the truth of the reality. Now it appears that we do this because we are uninformed as to the complexity of all of the factors, however there is also a stream of consciousness about validating our perspectives, even if we must cheat on the veracity of those perspectives. A society of short cutters. We would rather do everything easy and even lie about the consequences of these strategies than honor the noble endeavor of facing the truth at every turn. The truth is fact, not theory nor a manipulated mind set. When we honor those who have the forthright ability to see what truth is there and to act on truth without trying to game truth, then we are going in the right direction. Our society is chaotic on this subject of living in the truth. Too many of us are too willing to lie and cheat if it does something for our ego and our ill-informed sense of reality, instead of choosing to honor those who don't lie and cheat as a guiding principle.
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