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Yup. I am fed up with the lies we all tell to ourselves - all the BS that we smother ourselves in:- all for appearance's sake. If we could admit to ourselves (a
by w_t_payne 13y ago
Yup. I am fed up with the lies we all tell to ourselves - all the BS that we smother ourselves in:- all for appearance's sake. If we could admit to ourselves (and to each other) how crap we (as human beings) really are, then we might actually stand a chance of fixing ourselves - and maybe also make a start on all of the obviously broken systems in the world. Only we cannot - we dare not point out our flaws or criticize the systems that govern and control the world:- because that would be "weird". The emperor is stark bollock naked, and we need somebody to point it out in such a way that we all take notice.
- lukifer 13y agoI can't help but be fascinated by the web of lies that comprises so much of the social fabric: not only cultural notions like "God cares about your sex life" or "America is the greatest nation", but even fundamentally obvious ideas like "human life has value" or "the truth matters". :P Beliefs, and the deceptions that maintain them, are more properly understood as self-fulfilling prophecies; prescriptive ideas, masquerading as descriptive ideas. I have a serious concern that if we magically evaporated every single lie, and therefore every belief, we would disintegrate back into "nature red in tooth and claw". Our capacity for aspirational imagination and social climbing through deception is as every bit baked into the history of human evolution as our empathy for those like us, or our care for child-rearing. It is, in Stross's term, a wicked problem. "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - Vonnegut
- w_t_payne 13y agoWow. Interesting take on things. I may have to think about this a bit.