The truth about lies

How many lies have you told because YOU did not want to hear the truth [or the truth that would come back at you]?

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The Nature of the Beast

They say you only use about ten percent of your mind.
I say the other ninety percent uses you.

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spell in error

The recognized, and sometimes accepted, excuse for bad behavior: "I'm only human" is like a tarp. You can toss it over only so much junk before it ceases to disguise what it covers. If a person has simply lost their temper they will later have some regret. For such outbursts, apologies and forgiveness may be exchanged. But when someone blasts away in a fluent flurry of rage and later says they were provoked and the behavior calls for an apology not from them but from the object of their rage, then a very different game is being played. In the first case a person loses their temper, in the second, they loose it.

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Greed is never a victimless crime

Whenever someone enabled by their wealth to do such things, buys more of the limited and exhaustible necessities than they need, be it land, water, food, fuel or whatever, they bid the price of those resources out of reach of someone else who was on the verge of not affording the bare minimum.  That power to diminish well being is not the advertised face of wealth.   Less altruistic behavior is a common reaction to a net scarcity of resources but we make it worse with an economics that artificially worsens the scarcity by enabling some of us to hoard.

When the rich pay for more than they need, 

the poor pay more for what they need.

I was put in mind of this by the Bill Maher video that Shokai brought to our attention.

The merit of having a plan for more sustained or broadly beneficial use of a resource is effectively nil under the reward schemes of our economy.  We put the good faces of Lincoln, Washington, Hamilton and Franklin on our money.  That almost seems like lying to me.  Money is a sweetener to hide the real flavor of the inhumane nature of our transactions.  Lucifer, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, Gordon Gekko, Phil Gramm and Ronald Reagan's faces are the ones we should see each time we trade.

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like, duh,

Teens, an artificial grouping if you use it to categorize by maturity,  are reputed to have achieved nearly instant trend propagation.  That is not news and the four commentaries don't declare it to be.  The speed of propagation is generally attributed to whatever speed the available media supports...I agree.   But no one addresses the question of why, of what might make this pattern so universal.  

This is the sort of situation that invites a dork like me to trot out my theory.  It is much simpler than one might expect from the blurry junk pile of diverging trends that youth, in the memory of extant books and commenters, have picked up and soon enough tossed aside where cultural historians come along to force them into palateable rationales: The stronger that school-of-fish-turning-on-a-dime behavior, the less secure the creatures that are exhibiting it. 

 Herd behavior is an adaptation to the sense of vulnerability.

 

The confidence for genuine individuality generally comes to us much later than the urge to stake out an identity.   Being human is not easy.   Each style-as-badge a person adopts makes sense to them in the context of the moment of adoption.   Being somebody recognizable but not exposed for being too different is a compelling consideration at a certain point in your life.

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only experience can blend idealism and realism

Idealism without strategy is a sure recipe for disappointment. Idealism and greed are the estranged children of hope.

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Do you suppose they will mind the implied tasks?

If the world were perfect, I could leave it.  Alas!  There is so much to put right.  I will have to have progeny because I sure won't solve all the problems in my time or by myself.

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