Why do we humans have such an angst about the truth? Why would we rather do the three monkeys' act than gracefully accept ' It's a fair cop Guv ' or in this case 'Ma'am'? Why rather than face up to DOT would we rather bury our heads in the sand or worse cover up? Why is truth always the first casualty of a war?
OK OK so none of us like to lose face and the higher up it goes, the worse it gets but when are we going to realise that our refusal to accept that we got and can get it wrong is going to be or could be to the detriment of our fellow human beings?
Some years ago, partly because of a Catholic education and partly because of having to wade through 'Paradise Lost' at school it suddenly struck me that the real root of all evil is love of power. After all the rebellion in Heaven was about power not money and I feel that the mistake about money is perhaps due to the failure to realise that extreme wealth is one of the ways of exercising power and still is. Moreover those who wield it so hate to find themselves caught out; there seems to be this thought that losing face equates to losing power.
These days it's the financial corporations that exercise the financial muscle and don 't care for anybody that dares to rain on their parade as I know only too well having taken them on not only of behalf of myself but others as well and time and time again have been caught out by what I term 'the corporate lying' and who have learnt the hard way not to treat those who provide for their upkeep as complete morons.
Same applies to ideologists/idealogists when it comes to being confronted with those considered 'heretics' or 'apostates' Sorry but I don't agree that the best way to save one's beliefs is by savaging those who disagree or in any way take a critical stance and how does attacking dissidents help to hold the moral high ground assuming one is holding it in the first place? Over to you Monsieur Voltaire.
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