Why We Lie: The Source of our Disasters

Why We Lie: The Source of our Disasters
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Why do we lie?Because we are frightened of being humiliated, being treated like an object, being rejected, losing control of things, and, most of all, we are frightened of uncertainty. Often we get our lies in before any of these things can happen. We lie to maintain our vanity. We lie when we call our fantasies the truth. Lying is much easier than searching for the truth and accepting it, no matter how inconvenient it is. We lie to others, and, even worse, we lie to ourselves.In both private and public life, we damage ourselves with our lies, and we damage other people. Lies destroy mutual trust, and fragment our sense of who we are.Lies have played a major part in climate change and the global economic crisis. Fearing to change how they live, many people prefer to continue lying rather than acknowledge that we are facing a very uncertain but undoubtedly unpleasant future unless we learn how to prefer the truths of the real world in which we live rather than the comforting lies that ultimately betray us. We are capable of changing, but will we choose to do this?

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Dorothy Rowe. Why We Lie: The Source of our Disasters

DOROTHY ROWE. Why We Lie

Contents

Preface

Can we change?

Chapter One How Can We Know What Is True?

Chapter Two The Curious World We Live In

Chapter Three Do You Know What I Mean?

Chapter Four Why Lying Is Necessary

Chapter Five How We Learn to Lie

Chapter Six The Danger of Being Obedient

Chapter Seven Deciding What Is True

Categories of Truth

Chapter Eight How Important Is the Truth to You?

Seeing the Truth in Front of Us

Chapter Nine Fantasies Are Important. Some Definitions:

Fantasies

Chapter Ten The Delights of Shared Fantasies

Chapter Eleven Special Fantasies: Beliefs and Delusions

Delusions

Chapter Twelve Varieties of Lies

Chapter Thirteen The Same Old Lies

Chapter Fourteen Denying What Is There

Chapter Fifteen Hypocrites All

Chapter Sixteen Being Lied To

Chapter Seventeen Lying for Your Government

Chapter Eighteen Never Say You’re Sorry

Chapter Nineteen Some Hard Truths

Notes. Preface

Chapter One: How Can We Know What Is True?

Chapter Two: The Curious World We Live In

Chapter Three: Do You Know What I Mean?

Chapter Four: Why Lying Is Necessary

Chapter Five: How We Learn to Lie

Chapter Six: The Danger of Being Obedient

Chapter Seven: Deciding What Is True

Chapter Eight: How Important Is the Truth to You?

Chapter Nine: Fantasies Are Important

Chapter Ten: The Delights of Shared Fantasies

Chapter Eleven: Special Fantasies: Beliefs and Delusions

Chapter Twelve: Varieties of Lies

Chapter Thirteen: The Same Old Lies

Chapter Fourteen: Denying What Is There

Chapter Fifteen: Hypocrites All

Chapter Sixteen: Being Lied To

Chapter Seventeen: Lying for Your Government

Chapter Eighteen: Never Say You’re Sorry

Chapter Nineteen: Some Hard Truths

Index

About the Author

PRAISE FOR DOROTHY ROWE:

Corpyright

About the Publisher

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Every aspect of our national character lives in every act of character in our homes and families. If our nation keeps secrets, so too we learn to justify the secrets that we keep. If it isn’t for national security, it’s for personal security. If it’s not civil defense, it’s a defense of ourselves. If our leaders say one thing and do quite another, well, is it any surprise that we use the excuse of their faults to cover up our own?

Harold Lloyd Goodall Jr, A Need to Know: The Clandestine History of a CIA Family

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Also by Dorothy Rowe

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