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Aug 09, 2014 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
In an episode of the series “Lie to Me”, the main character, Dr. Lightman, a deception expert, said to the newly elected governor, that he, the governor, had condoned two murders and a cover-up, by not asking questions. He was guilty by omission.
We are all guilty at times of leaving things undone, in order to avoid situations that would make us uncomfortable. We may not want to know the bad news, so we avoid ‘hearing’. We encourage those whom we surround ourselves with, from bringing any news that would give a lie to what we are saying. We ‘sin’ by staring Truth in the face and pretending that it is a lie.
We have a responsibility to be aware of what is happening around us, particularly in leadership positions. We only delay the inevitable by burying our heads in the sand. In fact, things get worse, the longer we allow deception to go on. Some of us go to elaborate lengths, even causing people to be sacrificed, in order to delay our own day of reckoning.
In situations of power and influence, leaders need to keep abreast of what is happening, and to encourage their trusted aides to be honest in their actions and speech. Their dishonesty with facts leave the Emperor naked, unclothed, and held up to ridicule and scorn, when attempts are made to pretend things are not what they are. It does not serve the common good. But of course, when we lie, we are not thinking of the common good. We forget we are serving people, not ourselves. The more invested we become with the lie, the more the lie grows.
Development requires the commitment of all citizens, who cannot give their best to a situation that is not supportive of them. The reality is that people keep leaving our dear land, in search of a better deal! How do we lie about that? People need a supportive environment to facilitate their participation and their development. It is not development, when we leave a lot of people behind as we ‘develop’.
Who can honestly say that people are currently well served in their respective communities? Who would want to put up spurious excuses, for years, to avoid having communities be served by people they believe will look after their interests? Who would be so wrapped up in their own gain, which they forget they cannot take with them, when they pass from this life?
We tend to forget that there is no way all the things we acquire will be going with us when we pass; no way, and pass we will. We tend not to focus on what this means. As someone once said, “coffins don’t have shelves”. I believe that even if they did have shelves, the rotten, dishonest persons who surround the rotten, dishonest persons we become as politicians, would not allow any treasures to go with us; and we leave our children a tainted legacy.
There really is no use for our treasures in the grave. Even though we attend funerals for other people, it seems like we do not recognize that at any time it could be our funeral, and that for now, in the present, while we are still here, we should improve our quality of life, and not our quantity, which we should know by now does not have the true richness that quality has. Knowing that when the ‘other’ is better off, I am better off seems like such a hard concept for the greedy to grasp.
We diminish our country, when we become slaves to the things that power and influence bring. Who can honestly say that giving up integrity to get as much as we can for number one has been a great experience for them? The lie takes on a life of its own, and grows as we feed it, until it becomes our truth.
Send for the psychiatrist!!!
Rosemary Terborg Davis
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