Hypocrisy - The Definition
Noun
the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.
The practice of hypocrisy has been around for a long time...probably as long as humans learned to communicate.
I can imagine our ancestors sitting around a fire and telling tall tales of their bravery and daring feats of hunting.
All of us, at one time or another have probably been guilty of being hypocritic. We all want to make ourselves look better than we really are in the eyes of others. In many of these cases there is not a lot of harm done by being untruthful in this way.
It is not a virtue by any means and today, with the internet and the far reaches we have at our disposal, it seems to me to be on the up rise. Perhaps it is not becoming more flagrantly used nowadays but just more notable.
We see it in the racial divide, in politics, in religion, in environmentalism, and the media. It is and has become a huge part of the information we are bombarded with on a daily basis.
I have come to the conclusion that I now do not trust things that people tell me without checking the facts for myself.
People from all walks of life have agendas and beliefs and many of these people want to establish their beliefs onto us.
They find it quite alright, and even acceptable, to lie, which is just another word for hypocrisy, to sway us to their point of view.
Take the intelligence communities. The CIA, FBI, MI5, MI6, Mossad, KGB, Antifa, BLM...add your favorite here. Their entire community is based on lying and hypocrisy. It is fundamental to how they operate. UFO cover-ups and dissemination of false facts and false flags. Remember the WMD's that led the US into Iraq? Was 9/11 and inside job? JFK's assignation?
Even gossip is hypocrisy as you can see on TV every single day.
We will never be rid of it.
It has become an increasingly popular way to silence people or to shed doubt on other people's integrity.
I believe it has become a weapon that destroys good people and stifles good ideas.
We will never have an open society and we will never obtain the Utopia that could be ours if we continue down this path.
The truth is, we are all flawed human beings. And the truth is that sometimes the truth hurts. But I, for one, would rather have someone tell me the truth and hurt my feelings because then I have the option to consider if what they say about me is actually true. And if it is then I can do something within myself to remedy the flaw within me.
What do you think?
I will leave you with a few quotes I dug up.
“Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe
“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit
“We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.”
“We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.”
“Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.”
“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
