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Looking around the world, lying seems to have been redefined as; "a perfectly reasonable business strategy". One of the biggest shocks I had going from childho
by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Looking around the world, lying seems to have been redefined as; "a perfectly reasonable business strategy".
One of the biggest shocks I had going from childhood to adulthood was the sudden flip between people telling you that you have to be honest and the people now telling you to stop being honest. And the people who had previously told you that you must be honest, they tell you "oh yes, that's work", when you go back to ask them what you should do given you are being instructed by the people who pay your wages that you now have to lie.
- sorokod 8y agoLife is messy an there are grey areas. That doesn't mean that the abstract concept has no meaning at all, Theranos is an example.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoSure, but as a society we've already legitimized lying, in form of e.g. ad industry, and at the same time, we're in total denial of that fact. I regret my parents never taught me we're living in softly adversarial world. People are not going to kill you, but businesses are out to fleece you.
- cuboidGoat 8y agoTell me about it. That point when you realise that fiction and comedy really are not exaggerating all that much, if at all. "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - Groucho Marx See also; the appointed Liars of the Zoon tribe of Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
- cuboidGoat 8y agoTheranos is an example of commercial dishonesty leading to the top of political power and even snares people such as Mattis, who is possibly the only individual in the current US executive with any kind of reputation for being honest. And the apparent message from that debacle isn't; "be honest", rather it is; "being dishonest nets billions, try not to get caught though".