Negative+Negative=Positive?

Honesty has become a fun game that people like to play. There is somehow a great joy in attaching people to a lie detector and asking questions to see whether or not they tell the truth. We sometimes talk in a sarcastic voice to see if other people will pick up on the fact that we are only kidding. We pull pranks on people where we say that we no longer want to be friends or text song lyrics in order to elicit a response from the opposite side. Then we simply tell them that it was just a prank or that it isn’t the truth. For a society who highly values the truth, this is quite ironic. The events listed are examples where people are deliberately dishonest and find it amusing to do so, and this is actually accepted as a form of entertainment in our society. Like Steven Pinker says, “hypocrisy is a human universal”. While it is implemented in our culture to be truthful people, we wittily follow this virtue. According to our thinking, we are still honest people if we perform dishonest acts without meaning them. We are still honest people if we say the truth but cut out certain portions of it.

In some ways, this holds true; our thinking is rooted in the idea that the truth is what’s most important and although there may be some knick knacks, they don’t change the essence of it. If we are technically speaking though, it doesn’t make sense. Where is the line between the raw truth and the synthetic truth? Because personally, I don’t think they can be categorized as the same thing. As we continue to distort and reedit our definition of honesty, it makes me wonder what will be considered “honest” many years from now.

Song of the week:






Pink Sweat$ - Honesty // https://youtu.be/-Y9VtoPvtuM






I think it's pretty self-explanatory as to why I chose this song if you look at the title. Make sure to give it a listen :)