To LIE is to believe you get ahead in lying
It’s to believe it’s a better strategy to tell others something you believe they want to hear, instead of what-IS
Of course LYING doesn’t change WHAT-IS
So eventually you are found out, by definition
Unless you change what-is before you’re found out — then you get found out as a LIAR
But if you can CHANGE what-is so easily — then why even LIE in the first place?
Well perhaps because you believe you’ll get away with it
You believe that as a whole — you’ll gain more by LYING — than you’ll lose by being found out
And will you?
We put man on the moon
We rouse buildings to the sky
We took this man’s heart out and put it into some other cadaver, and he lived
We put men in a metal box and it fucking flies across the ocean. Normal men get in here and get out there across the globe
Do you think those things were made possible by LYING?
Do you think you can LIE that you have a PLANE, or a ROCKET?
Or do you just build a fucking rocket?
With someone whose also interested in building rockets
And CAPABLE of building rockets
Best proven by actually building a rocket,
Do you think it was “proven” by LYING? By making up stories about it?
Or have they built a fucking rocket and it flew to the sky and above?
Lying is for losers, obviously
Doing great things is… well, doing. Not talking
And those that do great things will NEVER, NEVER EVER listen to the liar twice
There’s far too much at stake
There’s nothing to gain anyway
You know,
In the past, we had more honour, I suppose
And the world was a bit less complicated
Everything wasn’t so subjective and inscrutable
I believe we became far more comfortable with BULLSHIT and LIES — in our modern ERA where everything is a MATTER OF OPINION, and EVERYTHING TURNS UPSIDE DOWN every DECADE
If you’re a serious man, serious doer, you won’t have time for liars
But the rest of the folk out there quite enjoy lying to themselves, and being lied to
I would call for lesser tolerance for lies
I am not sure the STATE can, or should force it. Sounds too dangerous for the freedom of speech, which is imperative for the self-correcting system where great ideas are tested and proven
However YOU AND I can enforce it
You and I can say that we will never shake the hand of the LIAR again
Of the scammer again
Of the shill again
Of the salesman again
And be better off for it
And the world should be better off for it