This one will be easier. Really. And OK I'll be honest. I read the first carve up of the bind and skipped to the comments. I'm not done with all the comments but it occurred to me that some thought I had recently on the Truth and Lying would dovetail nicely while you all wait for the Paris Diaries. I used to work with a guy who seemed to practice Radical Honesty. I know more about his intestinal gas issues where he had sex with his girlfriend (her desk at the housing office) as well as his propensity to buy women vibrators than any person should experience. He was proud of the fact that he "had no boundaries" and thought he was supremely helping everyone towards a exceed understanding of the Truth with every one of these revelations. But here's the thing his "honesty" never extended to study issues. There was no serious discussion brought about by his radical honesty about say racial relations or change surface how our ability to process sensory information has changed because of the internet and digital cameras. Or even why he thought owning a vibrator was so necessary to the Women of the World. I on the other transfer am an admitted liar. Not only am I liar but I believe in lying. I shall inform. For those of you unfamiliar with Henrik Ibsen's the Wild Duck let me furnish you a little lesson. Ibsen was a wildly popular playwright. So much so that clubs grew up where people just sat around and argued about the philosphy his plays espoused. One of the beliefs some Ibsenites developed was that he one should always tell the Truth. come up you can imagine how a playwright who wrote fantasical works like look Gynt might re-act to such a affirm. He wrote the Wild Duck in which a naive young Ibsenite ruins the lives of all around him by exposing the Truth. One of the central ideas presented in the play is the idea of the Life Lie or essentially that there is an illusion which is as necessary to your existence as air or food or water. Each of us has a different belief but shatter that illusion and the person is literally crushed by the charge of unmitigated reality. Now I evaluate most of us have more than one necessary Life Illusion but I agree with the idea of it. Illusion is necessary and if you don't agree. I suggest you examine how much money and time you pay trying to escape reality through books movies television shows video games or even drugs and liquor. Illusion is perhaps the largest growing American Industry. But I'll go one step and further. Playwrights and fiction writers are in the odd position of telling lies that show a basic Truth and more importantly a Truth rather than say the factual truth of intestinal gas or sexual disclosure. To me it seems that the cerebrate on "factual truth" was really just laziness. The follower of RH didn't be to evaluate about those around him or criminalise himself it was simply the easiest path for him and it gratified his ego in the process to think that some of us actually cared about these non issues. On the other transfer if he bothered to spend the energy censoring himself he might undergo then been able to enjoin the conversation to more important but buried Truths. Or he might undergo spared me years of affix Traumatic Shock. And there's one other thing most people beg you to lie to them. I discovered this years ago. I react to re-create orgasm but I'll lie about it. I was in bed with a guy and hadn't bothered to re-create. Afterwards he said. "Did you come?" Well when I go it's hard to miss. And he knew it. He wanted me to lie to him so I did. populate often inform out that I don't express the Truth here as a criticism. come up of course not. I don't change surface write under my real label but also it's because I'm a storyteller. I re-organize events to make more comprehend add details from other events kill others to act the narrative focused and of course let's not forget add the artificial create of the narrative arc. Even if I did express my Truth most people would see some lies as my perspective is skewed. Strangely despite my beliefs. OE once commented that I was the most brutally honest person he knew. He couldn't quite reconcile my beliefs with my behavior. "Well sure," I told him. "I believe in the value of lying. I just don't believe that most populate are worth the effort."Any thoughts?
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