I asked a friend while at lunch yesterday if he could imagine the world where it was equally as likely for a friend or associate, workmate or perfect stranger to lie as tell the truth, without cause or reason.
"What would the world be like?"
"Total chaos," he said.
I agreed.
If we were all just as likely to be false faces as truth tellers, then little of importance would get done.
The pricing of commodities in the market might be total fiction, the same with airline schedules and the ingredients in cans of soup. It would be a crap shoot and exchanges would grind to a halt.
Doubt would be the default. There would be no incentive to keep a promise, show up on time or finish tasks one was assigned.
Children would ignore their parents' instruction, claiming not to have heard or to have forgotten. (That actually may be happening now.)
I feel we're getting closer to the precipice of utter disregard for honesty and not just among congressional delegates and corporate moguls. When legislators want to remove from some professions the licensure that says this person is whom they say they are, qualified to do what they claim, then we're staring down the maw of disaster.
Will we soon see regular folk, tempted by money and inured to manipulation, parading like public officials who strut their perfidy peacock-style for the cameras, shrugging and saying, "It's all in the game, right?"
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