We Do...?

I have found it hard to maintain my concentration on this lovely day. The natural consequence of which is that my writing is far from its otherwise insufferable impeccable quality. Also, I think my head might explode, so I shall conclude this as swiftly as possible.

Have you reached the rather logical conclusion that there is an inherent ambiguity to being a decent person, while simultaneously participating in the ‘civil society’ paradigm? Or, if I may paraphrase, have you noticed that our world is full of hypocrites?

I might be wrong, as I love to and shall continue to repeat. But I’m just going to be a hypocrite and say that each and every one of the (insert huge number here) people on our planet is, to some extent at least, living in delusion.

People lie.

I do.

You do. 
         We all do.

Admit it... Well, that wasn’t so difficult, was it? All right. Moving on...

The fascinating aspect of lying – to my twisted soul, that is – is not the attempt to deceive others, but rather the tendency of most conscientious people to try to lie to themselves. (I obviously consider myself amongst those poor creatures.)

Lying to others is messy, hard, illogical business. Deluding yourself is tremendously worse. And it often leads to what we like to call ‘experience’. (Which, sadly, often seems to be just another word for ‘mistake’ these days.)

I shall now leave you and commence to gain enough experience to reach higher levels of understanding. And maybe learn something useful. (Although, I must admit – I don’t like the odds of that happening.)