Lying is a scientific art and it is not a ‘new normal’ [anymore] because the whole evolutionary process of humanity embodied the activity of telling, hearing and believing lies. Truth has not been figured out yet; the steps taken to decode the facts are “too subjective”. To add fuel to the fire, the dilemma is that objective path to know and uncover the truth is paradoxical, thus, the cost of truth is higher than the benefits of lies.
Just look at a “lie”, without adding any moral value to it, you will simply understand that lying is a natural trait and also an external conditioner. All of us have our hands dirty and unclean, therefore, it would be objectionable to quantify and qualify each other’s lying activities. So, relax!
Ceteris Paribus, this blog endeavors to decipher “why do people lie?”
Reason 1: Lying is easier and less costlier
The time taken to work on facts gathering, facts verification and examination of facts is too timely and costlier so people easily prefer manipulating (lying) the facts (to suit their own needs, preferences, agenda and objectives).
Reason 2: Lie has a collective demand :)
The mass society anyway is motivated by the axioms of false consciousness and “money”. Even if you sell a poison sugar coating with acceptable jingles and right marketing techniques, you can easily dump anything else than facts. People often suffer from “stockholm syndrome” (development of mental alliance with the captor) and “cognitive dissonance” (intolerance towards a new belief/fact) so the market demand for the lies is very accommodative and voluminous.
Reason 3: Fear to hurt and get hurt :(
Emotions at play and also at risk, otherwise why would there be a dire necessity to lie accordingly? Humans have some phobia or the other, and the most important one is fear to hurt the ones we care. Thus, we take our own stance as per the occasion to escape the personal, social and sometimes legal consequences. Liar and lied are all-the-time entities in equilibrium at different stages of communication.
Reason 4: Ego and pride!!!!!
Well, well, who does not want to guard their own image, identity, control, power and pride in the community? Social anxiety often leads us to cover the shells of our own egotistical pride and thus lying is a vocation and avocation for many. Creating the image that is not is easier these days but maintaining the same is too uneasy since there’s a competition of lies.
Reason 5: Fear of judgments, yeah!
If you are an Indian, you would better know how a single judgment made against you can ruin your mind for ages. People in general always fear to get judged so they lie in their best way to ratiocinate their issues and things. Often people tell lies because they endeavor to “escape” and “evade” judgement(s) in the best possible manner and since the morality is a subjective subject so “what’s truth to you, may be a lie for me”.
Reason 6: Incentives!?
Telling truth or facts have got very few listeners, and also somewhere we lost a little faith in telling truth because we were not complimented, rewarded and appreciated for expressing facts or “truth”. People easily lose faith in the system of truth [when] it works against them and then there arises the issue of psychological incentives and monetary losses.
