Lying Industry

[Wu Wei]

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Just as there is a “sex industry,” there is also a “lying industry.” Many people have to lie in order to succeed as politicians, or salespersons. A corporate director of communications told me that if he were allowed to tell the truth about his company’s products, people would not buy them. He says positive things about products he knows are not true, and he refrains from speaking about the negative effects of the products. He knows he is lying, and he feels terrible about it. So many people are caught in similar situations. In politics also, people lie to get votes. That is why we can speak of a “lying industry.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

Do you feel there is a lying industry?

 

[McBell]

Do you feel there is a lying industry?

Yes.
There always has been and always will be.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Yes, the business of being human.

 

[allfoak]

I think that was the reason that Pat Robertson dropped out of the '08 presidential election.
He was a really bad liar.
Not sure how Bush Jr managed to get elected.
He was the worst liar i ever saw.
Obama is the best liar i have ever seen.

 

[Quagmire]

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Do you feel there is a lying industry?

Yes, they call it the Media.

 

[YmirGF]

Do you feel there is a lying industry?

Not an industry, per se, rather, it is an aspect of human communication.

Tell me, if your significant other asks you, "Does this outfit make me look fat?" Do you tell the truth or do you smile and lie?

 

[Nietzsche]

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Do you feel there is a lying industry?

Lying is the glue that holds society together.

 

[Wu Wei]

Not an industry, per se, rather, it is an aspect of human communication.

Tell me, if your significant other asks you, "Does this outfit make me look fat?" Do you tell the truth or do you smile and lie?

Tell the truth, she is skinny as a rail

She actually asks me this all the time, and my usual statement is "you really better not say your fat around other women...they will lynch you"

 

[Wu Wei]

Lying is the glue that holds society together.

It would be a rather interesting society if we all told the truth, but I am not sure that it would be for the better, or the worse

 

[Thana]

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Do you feel there is a lying industry?

Of course.
Politics + Media = Lying Industry

It's quite obvious in Australia especially, since one person owns most of our media and one company owns most of our elected politicians.

 

[Nietzsche]

It would be a rather interesting society if we all told the truth, but I am not sure that it would be for the better, or the worse

Lying is an important form of inhibition. Speaking your mind all the time is just going to rile people up, and that's not even factoring people like me, who while brash and without the fcks-giving gene, still don't always say what I really think. We need to lie to suppress that.

So, would things be more fun? Undoubtedly. But despite my pleas to the contrary, few people agree with me that funner is always better-er.

 

[Twilight Hue]

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Do you feel there is a lying industry?

Oh yea. Lying seems to be the accepted norm today. I'm guessing it's because people don't call liars out enough without undue repercussions.

It seem there are two sets of rules.

Lie to a corporation or authority..get in trouble..

Corporations or authorities lie to you.... Nothing. No accountability or cconsequence because they can't be touched for the most part, with few exceptions.

 

[Revoltingest]

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Do you feel there is a lying industry?

Lawyers......I see them lie in court with impunity.

 

[Wu Wei]

Lawyers......I see them lie in court with impunity.

There is a course in it...it is called legal ethics

 

[Wu Wei]

I agree, lying is everywhere and I think part of the job description for "politician" is the ability to lie with expected impunity. I just never thought of it as a Lying industry before.

 

[Thief]

Not an industry, per se, rather, it is an aspect of human communication.

Tell me, if your significant other asks you, "Does this outfit make me look fat?" Do you tell the truth or do you smile and lie?

I tell my wife there are high school kids envious of you

 

[Thief]

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Do you feel there is a lying industry?

political correctness is the politically correct term

 

[Desert Snake]

Not an industry, per se, rather, it is an aspect of human communication.

Tell me, if your significant other asks you, "Does this outfit make me look fat?" Do you tell the truth or do you smile and lie?

Actually, when my 'friend', asks me something like that, i do tell her the truth. Is that bad?

 

[Sunstone]

Lying has always been with us, but it seems it is now more socially accepted -- and probably more practiced -- than it was in, say, Mark Twain's day. Of course, it is highly arguable that lying as an industry begins in the United States with the 1920s work of Edward Bernays, father of the Public Relations industry.