@mahgister,
You and I and many others that contribute to this forum might try to be honest as we can be, but it isn't the way of this world.
The truth in 2021 is now probably only reserved for those interactions between between friends and loved ones.
Certainly seems that no one in the big outside world is too concerned with telling the truth.
Certainly not the tyrannical banks, the litigious lawyers, those puppet politicians, the censorious educational establishment, the apparatchiks in the mainstream media, the farcically propagandist fact checkers, those ravishingly data stealing carnivorous tech giants, the fear-spreading pill-dishing big pharma, and obviously not even your friendly neighborhood hi-fi reviewer.
The likes of the late Peter Aczel are few and far between, alas.
Any that still remain (Penn Jillette, Derren Brown, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning etc etc) risk being banished and sent to distant concentration camps and gulags to be found on the outer reaches of the cyber universe.
Places where they might find themselves in the company of criminals and the seriously deluded.
Exiled to virtual penal colonies.
"If you go to bed with another woman you will be in the obligation to lie, not because you are a liar, because there is no other way.... Simple..."
Unless you are very lucky and have a very understanding partner..
It's a little risky, but I think personal honesty (ok maybe not quite the confessional Russell Brand type of antics - not everyone is ready for that) can lead to closer more substantial relationships.
You and I and many others that contribute to this forum might try to be honest as we can be, but it isn't the way of this world.
The truth in 2021 is now probably only reserved for those interactions between between friends and loved ones.
Certainly seems that no one in the big outside world is too concerned with telling the truth.
Certainly not the tyrannical banks, the litigious lawyers, those puppet politicians, the censorious educational establishment, the apparatchiks in the mainstream media, the farcically propagandist fact checkers, those ravishingly data stealing carnivorous tech giants, the fear-spreading pill-dishing big pharma, and obviously not even your friendly neighborhood hi-fi reviewer.
The likes of the late Peter Aczel are few and far between, alas.
Any that still remain (Penn Jillette, Derren Brown, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning etc etc) risk being banished and sent to distant concentration camps and gulags to be found on the outer reaches of the cyber universe.
Places where they might find themselves in the company of criminals and the seriously deluded.
Exiled to virtual penal colonies.
"If you go to bed with another woman you will be in the obligation to lie, not because you are a liar, because there is no other way.... Simple..."
Unless you are very lucky and have a very understanding partner..
It's a little risky, but I think personal honesty (ok maybe not quite the confessional Russell Brand type of antics - not everyone is ready for that) can lead to closer more substantial relationships.