The Nature of a Lie

I claim that a global lie exists in our language. The nature of a lie, because it is false information, cannot be successful without a set of supporting lies. So when one knows or speaks of a/one lie they necessarily speak of a whole nest of lies.

Many times a lie is easy to detect. But many a lie is not. Note that people get snared into financial scams and frauds everyday, Madoffs, Duvaliersand Enron’s lurk about everywhere on the take for other people’s money. Note that the people caught in the traps feel very bad about it and lose self-esteem. Failure to protect themselves (plus subsequent poverty) leads to all sorts of mental anguish.

Lies embedded in language however are almost impossible to detect. Moreover they’ve been with you all your life. You learned to read by learning the lies embedded in names! Names you believe to be Truth today! This form of lying is very clever. Individuals, communities and societies lose pride and self-esteem and start to think that they may not be as intelligent as they are. Failure to protect your identity as an honest and trustworthy individual erodes and self-doubts invade. You may think that you are not intelligent enough to be the architect of your own life!

To give you an example if the apple had been named apfig for the last thousand years you would today believe apfig is Truth. To support the nameapfig as Truth other names supporting “fig” would be invented. To support a lie other lies have to be invented.

Both genders see, hear and use names such as “apfig” all the time because they are the only names being used as speech currency. It doesn’t matter which gender is targeted in the false name or for what reason it was done, BOTH genders are harmed in “equal but different” ways. It is the goal in this blog to expose the lie and it’s supporting lies.