Lies, liars, and lying
The older one becomes whilst paying acute attention to the patterns of human behaviours that are openly exhibited, a clarity emerges to the discerning mind.
The news is awash with saddening and maddening information, and today’s digital landscape permits enormous fabrications and falsehoods to take flight across the world faster than ever before possible. Information does not need to be true, it just needs to be designed to be easily repeated and prey on the fears and anger of anyone susceptible to repeating them. And when enough impressionable and colluding minds repeat the falsehood, trouble is rapidly manifest. This is the immemorial technique of power wielded by those who seek to possess it without dignity of conscience.
Criminal acts that hurt others, particularly the most vulnerable in society are unanimously condemned, at least on condition that the affected fit the description of worthiness by either the prevailing majority or the agenda upheld by a monopolized media.
Crimes against children by grooming gangs characterised and politicised by their ethnic or religious identity has been a very popular angle for the racist right-wing, who would never use those parameters as distinctions when the criminal grooming gangs look like them. This opportunity to demonise a particular ethnic and/or religious group is further emboldened by government figures from similar ethnic hues but distinctly different religious affiliations, who embrace this opportunity to uphold ancient hatreds. Knowing that repeating the ethnic and religious identity of the criminals will foment more hysteria amongst the most impressionable in the populace in order to provoke the onset of a pogrom.
When confronted for their deliberately inaccurate propaganda that further endangers any social harmony, they will doggedly repeat the same lie over and over again, and never yield. The purpose of their career and their entire life is to uphold the falsehood that will empower propaganda and violence against innocent people, in their lust that one day they may hold a position of more power.
The same archetypes of bygone eras repeat in every generation, in every society. The evil must play their part, the good must do theirs. Telling liars that they are lying will only induce them to lie even more, few will ever make the transformation to truth because that takes an open heart and a clearer conscience, and that is reserved only for those who take on the difficulty to walk the honest path.
