Posted by
Duck Archer on Monday, April 13, 2009 4:48:18 PM
Liars lie. Stupid to state the obvious?
What about …
- when Liars drown out the obvious in a cacophony of lies?
- when a culture commonly questions established thoughts not on the basis of weighing competing evidence, but merely because it’s fashionable to question anything already established merely because it’s ‘established’?
1. The problem:
Lies reap often & deeply from ‘the law of unintended consequences’.
In ‘objective reality’, lies are the true ‘gift that keeps on giving’. Lies spread suspicion, hurt, and resentment -- in ever widening circles. The spread is especially true among cultures around the world that adhere to, as the best available form of justice, versions of any/all of the following:
- ‘an eye for an eye’
- ‘might makes right’
- ‘rule by self-appointed elites’ (Gnosticism, whether secular or theocratic)
- ‘the ends justify the means’
Politics, nature, and all other forces in the world are as they are, not as Liars would wish them to be.
- Liars ignore ‘objective reality’ to their own peril, even if gaining power in the short term. Prestige, wealth, and the other trappings of power, are never secure; they are less so when built on lies. Power built on lies also afflict the Liar with an interior unease, which breeds (among other things) paranoia. In addition to the overt hurts directly from lies, the varying levels of suspicion (even short of paranoia) also lead Liars to spread unease.
- Lies also afflict the innocent who Liars subjugate.
- Lies also afflict the innocent who Liars merely interact with.
Liars actually often aim to self-aggrandizement via intentionally hurting the innocent. At best, Liars are merely uncaring if their lies hurt the innocent. Even at ‘best’, Liars are incompatible with Inalienable Rights, more-less the Right of Free Will that underpins the specific Inalienable Rights.
2. Current examples:
- Defense & Deficits. Liars use economic crises, real or invented, to further denude national defense. Liars conveniently ignore that social spending amounts to *more than three times* the spending on national defense, and that social spending has about doubled in the last couple decades, while defense spending declined 40%, then has remained steady or declined until slight increase in 2008.
- Pot & Kettle. The liar often has the nerve to compound the lies’ original dissonance, by hypocritically accusing their opposition of ‘politics of personal destruction’ when the opposition dares to point out lies. This is not new. Recall the no longer taught moral tale, about the thief running from the scene of the crime, who shouts “Stop! Thief!” while pointing further ahead, just long enough to make an escape in the lie-generated confusion.
- Debate. Liars take half-baked science to enact involuntary worldwide wealth redistribution (even economic collapse), and push for U.N. mandates to tax & make binding laws, disguised thinly in the name of an invented human effect on global climate. Then they invent more ‘evidence’ to smear all who would say otherwise, especially including tenuous (and outright invented) ad-hominem attacks (aka “politics of personal destruction”) that don’t actually address the evidence.
- Free Speech. Liars insist on asserting their world view of morality, in the public square. Hypocritically, they attempt to silence differing moral viewpoints. Liars poison the discussion with doublespeak, not least by asserting a constitutional ‘freedom of speech’ is instead an imposition of morality.
- Majority Protection. Liars trump up charges, no matter how minor, to ruin their opponents’ reputations. Meanwhile, they ‘circle the wagons’ around their own who are actually guilty of similar and far worse offenses. Compare treatments to Packwood v. Studds, Hillary v. Newt, DeLay v. B. Clinton, among others.
- History. It’s been fashionable to overturn centuries of knowing Matthew wrote the first gospel. Liars use embedded lies in this one. The only evidence is a presupposition in a “Q” (aka “source”) document. Not only does “Q” not exist today, but all of history fails to mention any “Q” ever existing. One relies on imagined evidence to overturn evidence-based assessments?
- Guns. Liars claim inanimate objects must be banned, so they don’t kill people.
3. The solution:
It is not the person who calls a lie a lie, who is the dissonant troublemaker. Rather, it is the liar who causes the troubling ‘politics of hate’. We have forgotten this.
A truth must be lifted again from subduction within rampant cacophony of lies, including lies that question human knowledge merely for the specious sake of engaging in questioning everything: lies keep on giving pain, over & over again; lies must be exposed & snuffed out. This truth is long overdue, and must again be made obvious.