We live in a society that lies. Politicians lie with their promises, retailers lie with their products that can cause injury, the industries lie to ransack the planet and enslave the workers, lawyers lie to liberate bandits and assassins, doctors lie making us swallow down pills recommended by the pharmaceutical tycoons, wars lie passing themselves off as patriotism when they are just a pretext to acquire natural resources and treasures, religion lies recommending poverty as it becomes ever-richer, money lies converting something abstract without real value into wealth, the universities lie by turning sublime intellectuals into cynical technicians, sport lies with its drugs and make-shift sponsoring deals, museums lie turning themselves into snobby cabarets, sexualized publicity lies, the media and other mass-mediums of communication lie, the cops that are accomplices to drug-smugglers lie- who doesn't lie?
To cure a liar you must first cure his or her parents (a lot of marriages are just slow-evolving hell), cure society, culture, human history, all which are constructed on top of cons, crimes, injustice, and fanaticism. What can really be done for the liar? They must start on themselves first, detecting what their lies are, in what way they fool others, how they sell themselves, what characters they act, who they take advantage of... And later, the most important moment, realize how they have lied to themselves. To cure oneself one must one want to be cured. One must want not to be a liar the same way a person dying of thirst reaches out for water. When we are able to stop lying to ourselves, that is, when we are able to become who we are instead of what our family, society and culture wants us to be, we can start to cure the liar. For this to be achievable a long-term goal is needed, not individually but for humanity as a whole.
Translated from: Plano Creativo
(Galician history)
ReplyDeleteA medic, a veterinarian and a priest where discussing which one whas the hardest job.
The medician told "i studied the human body, and learned how to heal it", my job must be the hardest.
Then the veterinarian told "I can also heal, but animals, that coudn´t talk, so that makes my job the hardest"
The priest replied. "This is nothing. All the days, i go to the altar, and make hundreds of persons to belive something i dont"