It’s easy to say, “Nobody’s honest anymore!” but were we ever honest to begin with? Or has, perhaps, the ability to research fact from fiction made us more honest?
Why people tell the truth — or lie — is this week’s topic.
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We begin back in the past, when we first became aware of truth and lies. Find out if we were honest or liars as children…and how we fare as adults. We also devote some time to whether or not the people we know (or whom we’re even close to) tell the truth.
Truth in media has become a hot topic of many conversations. Does truth in media exist anymore? Also: has truth always been nebulous, or is that a recent development?
Then we get a bit deeper and talk about whether it’s even possible to know the truth about anything at all.
Do people in power sometimes have to lie? We devote some time to that before moving on to whether or not there is a Real Ultimate Truth™ in the universe.
And we wrap it up by discussing if there will ever be a time humans are truthful…or if some form of lying will always be with us…
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I beseech you. Christopher Gronlund, Father of Lies, please oh please let this article be a lie: https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/steve-martin-deletes-carrie-fisher-tweet-getting-thrashed-231457560.html
I’m not kidding around. Please let that be a lie. What do you want? Blood? My blood is special. I got paid extra at the donation center. No lie (I realize being the Father of Lies, you already know this).
And I’m freaking anemic and I don’t care!
Indeed, it is no lie. At least fortunately for Mr. Martin, the quick-to-rage pack cannot ruin him as easily as so many others who are not as well known.
I don’t even understand the hyped rage against things I’m not into. If something pisses me off, it’s usually a political thing and…whining online isn’t going to change shit. And when it comes to celebrities, time just seems better spent making the damn thing or funneling one’s rage in much more productive ways.