How is it possible to detect if someone is lying to you? And most importantly, why do people even need to lie to one another? I am a big supporter of the benefit of the doubt: I tend to give people face value, so when they say something, I assume that they are being honest. I know, I can be extremely naive at times, but hey, I'd rather assume that people are being honest than always having to second guess what I am told. But probably that is not the best way to go. And then, when you start suspecting that people are in fact lying to you, how do you go about finding the truth? One way is certainly the most abrupt one: ask. But it sounds quite stupid when you ask someone "Say, are you lying to me?". If they say "No, of course not", what makes you believe that THAT is not another lie? And of course, if someone IS lying to you, they ain't going to tell you to your face...
So you resort to tricks. You trick people into telling the truth, or you find a way to go around the obstacle. And there's tons of ways to do that...
It's just insane, and completely counterproductive, especially when people tell you that "communication is the basis of everything". Does that mean that "everything" is based on crappy lies?
Feb 16, 2006
Truth or dare
Posted by Gaia at 4:45 PM
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Credo che la comunicazione diventi bugia, proprio nel momento in cui ci si pone il problema di "come" farla.
Forse è lì che inizia il paradosso, quando si "fa comunicazione" piuttosto che "comunicare" semplicemente.
("PIUTTOSTO CHE" nel senso di "INVECE", anche se in Italia, ormai, lo usano per dire "O... O")
E si vede che la verità viene deviata, a volte rimossa; ma questo si riferisce soprattutto ai grandi sistemi dei media. Tra noi piccoli umani in carnedossa, meglio dirsela subito, la verità, e francamente. Quando ci riusciamo.
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