So, I was thinking about how lying might be kind of dumb. My observations have led me to believe that people fall in to two schools of thought on the subject of lying. Some say, of course lying is dumb; honesty is always the best policy. These people deny that they lie, ever. Of course they do lie. Once they got a purple sweater with gold and blue stripes for Christmas and they told their mom how much they loved it. They probably even went as far as to wear it out and absorb some harsh ridicule at their local watering hole, all so they could prove to their mother that they really did love the sweater. Of course they hated the sweater. So these people lie too, right? They would tell you that it’s not really lying. The second group knows that this is lying; they recognize that lying isn’t dumb, and submit it’s necessary for survival. You can’t tell your mother that she picked out an ugly sweater; you can’t tell that really nice girl that you don’t want to go to the movies with her because she has a gap the size of Montezuma in between her teeth and no gap in between her eyebrows to speak of.
I submit a third school of thought. I’ll be spearheading this movement personally. Our philosophy (just me so far) will be that lying is dumb, period. Lying is dumb and we don’t do it. If my mother gets me an ugly sweater for Christmas I’ll tell her. If some busted chick tries to “check up on me” I’ll tell her why she shouldn’t. I think in the long run a lot of awkward scenarios will be avoided by those who submit to this school of thought. My mom will call me an asshole, but she’ll still love me. That girl, she’ll be pretty mad, but she would have been downright enraged if I got drunk enough to convince myself to fuck her, did so, then never called her back.
A lot of people say they hate liars. Some probably do, but I can recall plenty of times an attempt at honestly has gotten me labeled an asshole. Here’s hoping enough people will follow me in this new school of thought to erase that label, for alone; I am an asshole, but together we will simply be known as the truth. Or maybe we’ll just be assholes together, but who wants to be an asshole by himself, right? Not me.
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Ah... this seems more like "when keepin' it real goes wrong." Is your school of thought really "new"? All I can say is that I'm going to have to throw myself in with the second group of people. I know lying is wrong, but it's naive to think that it's not necessary. But, of course, like anything else--there's restraints for everything. Did you know there are a lot of studies on this... haha
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