Trusting Others

 "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." This is what the Russian revolutionary  Vladimir Lenin once said. 

In our postmodern world where it is generally accepted that there are no truths, there are many lies out there which are told which eventually become accepted as a truth. 

Who can you trust these days? Honestly, who can you trust? You can't trust other people at all, unless they show through their actions that they are not self-serving, but serve others. Serving others means to be kind to others even when they are not kind to you and to forgive others when they have hurt you. A person who is self-serving is one who only looks at their own needs , but does not care about others because it is nothing to do with them. 

We are all naturally self-serving. That's right, we are all selfish. However, there are people whose actions are not self-serving because they know what is means to be self-serving and that it is not acceptable. It is impossible for people not be self-serving in one's own strength. This is because we are serving ourselves when we choose to serve others by our own will. It is true that some have done great humanitarian works for others, but if it is done without love, then the works are really done to satisfies one's own desire. Sometimes we may think we love others for who they are, but we really love them for what they can give to us, whether that be a good reputation. 

We often turn a blind eye to the poor, the needy and the powerless. Not only that, we treat them with disdain for who they are. This seems to be the norm of the world. It is no wonder why people generally can't be trusted. People fail us. Cynicism is forgiveable in our modern world because there are many cons out there.

These liars can be found in 3 main categories

• Academia

• Media

• Political/legal arena

I will be exploring the techniques each of them use to spread perverted and twisted philosophies to mislead others in their quest to gain what they want at the expense of others.