wanabe wrote:ThatOneKid,
Lies can be useful to individuals.
Life is almost never benefited in the long run by lies. I imagine the only exceptions are when life preservation is at stake in some way. Thus truth is actually useful for all life. Not simply an individual or select group of individuals. That is real.
It's not that real things can't be accomplished with lies. For there to be a lasting beneficial impact for life though, only the truth suffices.
This "feel good" is people deceiving themselves. Perhaps believing they are part of some kind of exceptional group. Everyone has a breaking point when they simply can't deceive themselves anymore. Generally it's when the lie doesn't feel beneficial to them. Such as when they have negative material consequences.
Deception can only be buried so deep before the truth resurfaces in some way. Deception is naturally self destructive.
Lies will never be eradicated in all likely hood. We can bring balance though. Truth is a laborious process, and the most rewarding in totality.
Creating another watchdog has been done. It's not a real solution. Just a temporary partial workaround that blatantly acknowledges a greater ongoing systemic problem.
This problem only begins to be solved when people individually and collectively seek the truth through every life benefiting means. Not always going to be pretty but there can be far greater balance.
But how can we bring balance?