Many years ago at a music appreciation class my teacher suggested that music was ‘noise with rhythm meant to be listened to’. I wondered at the time what difference there was between this and language? Meaning comes in many forms and some of them are not apparent to reason, they flow into us like an…
Lie for Votes
Politics is a best lie game. The reasons for this are many but stem mainly from the very business of leadership. Leadership requires either you have a dictatorial relationship with those you lead or you rule through consensus. If dictatorial you don’t mind what you do or say, your aim is to maintain your leadership….
If We Lie To
our children they will grow up to lie to us. It is a curious fact about people who habitually lie that they expect to always be told the truth. I am not sure if this is because their lies are never thought out, it is just the way they are and they are so used…
To Lie Out Of Love
Why do we lie to those are love the most? There are long lists of what we will not say to those we love stretching from lying about liking their family members to lying about who we find sexy. Are we scared? Embarrassed? Unsure? Or do we shy away from those things where we know…
Social Ineptitude
Beginning to publish oneself is an interesting adventure not the least because one does it because one feels the work is worth reading, and not so much for the money. If the world were moneyless it would be even more of a pleasure. But I worry that people replace social networking for marketing of a…
Long Ago And Close By
Have you ever wondered when the first lie might have been given? Several religions have exactly this moment in their myths and many, many stories about the paradigm of a liar, or the waywardness of a lie itself. Human beings may be evolved to lie. Although not all experts are convinced of the research carried…
War and Business
We all know lies in War are almost a necessity and certainly a very useful weapon in their own right. It also makes a lot more money than the straight truth would for business people. Just think if you proposed a law that everything sold to you had to carry two prices, the price the…
Children
Most children learn to lie around the age of four. More intelligent children learn about lying around the age of three. These first lies are usually very obvious to parents, and are mostly altruistic. As the child ages the lies develop and so does the face, with that typical ‘face’ that parents know so well…
Why Do We Lie
So many reasons so few worthy of us. But maybe they are all worthy of us because this is our nature. To lie to cover up our true intentions; our embarrassment; our mistakes; purposely to mislead; to make money; to keep lovers; to maintain others’ views of us; to protect someone else. Lies are our…
The Software Is There
. . . if you have the will to use it. Having spent a day, less than two weeks before publication, completely changing how the software deals with the typography of A Brief History Of Lies but aiming for same finished result, pressure of time and getting it right coalesce. This is the point where…