How can we effectively deal with outright liars? (You probably know who I am talking about.)
There is only one way. Just keeping repeating the truth over and over again.
Oh, the liars will say that we are monotonous, that we never come up with anything new.
While that is itself an obvious lie, the question still begs itself: SO WHAT? If what we are saying is the truth, why do we need to change it?
Granted, that does not mean that we will not learn, but just because the truth is monotonous does not mean we should stop repeating it. Rather, since it is the truth, we should shout it that much louder.
It is always a temptation to try to outfox a liar, but it never works. The liar does not care if he is outfoxed. He will just create new lies.
The problem with liars is that they are destructive. You see, that is their whole goal, destroy the truth, make it look foolish, out of date, monotonous, repetitive. But they are not satisfied with destroying the truth. They desire the destruction of everything around them so that they can profit big time from the confusion. In the confusion they can create more of their devilish, destructive works.
And so, Alinsky acknowledges in his book the "first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment", Lucifer, the devil himself, the chief of liars. Alinsky is not interested in creating anything; he is solely interested in destroying everything. That way everyone will be on his level, no one will have an upper hand. It will be "every man for himself." That is the purpose of lieing, creating utter destruction and confusion so every one will be at the bottom level.
Truth does just the opposite. It builds people up. When it sees someone struggling, it speaks to the situation with honesty so that the struggling can find the way out. It does not condescend to the struggling one as liars do. It offers a helping hand, not a condescending hand. It teaches a person to fish so that person can eat for a lifetime, instead of just handing the person a fish for one or two meals. Truth helps a person out of poverty instead of keeping him/her there for later handouts. And so truth builds people up, giving them self-esteem instead of preventing them from climbing out.
But liars don't like this. They get very angry when their bluff is called. They consider truth tellers obnoxious because like little children, they do not get to have their way. And so they kick and scream bloody murder with threats of killing free speech and all freedoms. The liars want the truth tellers to continue to feed their habits.
The problem with lieing is that it is self-destructive. If everyone ends up destroyed, the liars will have no one to fleece any more. Then what will they do? They will simply shrivel up and blow away, but in the meantime they will have destroyed everything the truth tellers have tried to build.
So what do we do? We need to keep speaking the truth and we need the guts to stand against the onslaught of the liars. If we don't we will all end up back in a primitive society where we will subsist until something new can be built by the truth.
Which would you rather have?
There is only one way. Just keeping repeating the truth over and over again.
Oh, the liars will say that we are monotonous, that we never come up with anything new.
While that is itself an obvious lie, the question still begs itself: SO WHAT? If what we are saying is the truth, why do we need to change it?
Granted, that does not mean that we will not learn, but just because the truth is monotonous does not mean we should stop repeating it. Rather, since it is the truth, we should shout it that much louder.
It is always a temptation to try to outfox a liar, but it never works. The liar does not care if he is outfoxed. He will just create new lies.
The problem with liars is that they are destructive. You see, that is their whole goal, destroy the truth, make it look foolish, out of date, monotonous, repetitive. But they are not satisfied with destroying the truth. They desire the destruction of everything around them so that they can profit big time from the confusion. In the confusion they can create more of their devilish, destructive works.
And so, Alinsky acknowledges in his book the "first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment", Lucifer, the devil himself, the chief of liars. Alinsky is not interested in creating anything; he is solely interested in destroying everything. That way everyone will be on his level, no one will have an upper hand. It will be "every man for himself." That is the purpose of lieing, creating utter destruction and confusion so every one will be at the bottom level.
Truth does just the opposite. It builds people up. When it sees someone struggling, it speaks to the situation with honesty so that the struggling can find the way out. It does not condescend to the struggling one as liars do. It offers a helping hand, not a condescending hand. It teaches a person to fish so that person can eat for a lifetime, instead of just handing the person a fish for one or two meals. Truth helps a person out of poverty instead of keeping him/her there for later handouts. And so truth builds people up, giving them self-esteem instead of preventing them from climbing out.
But liars don't like this. They get very angry when their bluff is called. They consider truth tellers obnoxious because like little children, they do not get to have their way. And so they kick and scream bloody murder with threats of killing free speech and all freedoms. The liars want the truth tellers to continue to feed their habits.
The problem with lieing is that it is self-destructive. If everyone ends up destroyed, the liars will have no one to fleece any more. Then what will they do? They will simply shrivel up and blow away, but in the meantime they will have destroyed everything the truth tellers have tried to build.
So what do we do? We need to keep speaking the truth and we need the guts to stand against the onslaught of the liars. If we don't we will all end up back in a primitive society where we will subsist until something new can be built by the truth.
Which would you rather have?
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