From Politicians to Influencers: The Lies We Believe and Why

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Welcome to my blog.

Today the topic to try is to lie for a reason, and it is very interesting because, as human beings that we are, we can have different reasons to lie.

It is not the first time in history that we have seen how lies are emitted by anyone.

The example that I want to highlight and that seems more common to me is the one that we all know, that of the politicians who during the electoral campaign times are dedicated to making us promises.

I can talk practically of the politicians in my country, as they have told us that we are going to have a better life.

Many Venezuelans believed in the promise in the year 1999 of the commander Hugo Chávez Frías, who was an emerging military man who had given a coup d'état and who had those revolutionary ideas that were going to be able to make us have a better country.

Most Venezuelans believed in that speech of this character, and giving this root to all those promises to have a beautiful Venezuela, to have a large, productive, independent, and strong country, they would become dust.

We all know how the country is currently, and it is precisely because we believe in all these lies of this person, of this character, who used his demagogic speech and his politickery to deceive all people.

In this case, it was a lie for him to be able to perpetrate in power, as he usually does with the different types of politicians in different places in the world.

There are other types of lies that are when we are forced to lie to save us from a situation of life or death.

For example, I have had to say, for example, when they have tried to attract me with a gun pointing me in the face, that I have money or that if I have possessions, simply to be able to make time for someone to appear, a policeman or something that would give me enough time to have the criminal so that someone would come to lend me support.

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And I have risked my life. I have had to lie on that occasion, putting my life in danger, but precisely that is what has kept me alive.

If I had told that criminal the truth that I did not have money, on top because he would probably have exposed me, that he would have shot me, or I would have been hurt, and I would not have to tell him that.

There are other cases in which lying is also necessary when a relationship is put in danger or when we are in front of an authority.

It usually happens in cases in which, for example, we have to declare taxes, and to evade these high taxes, people lie and say that they have generated less amount of money.

Then they are lying to benefit.

There are other cases also that very frequently appear on social networks.

Today we have the most recent case that I want to mention, the one of this character known as Frank of the Jungle or Wild Frank, who is the character who made many programs in Discovery Channel about animals and nature, that rescued animals and took care of all animals.

And we see that he is recently involved in a great controversy precisely because a few days ago he came out giving statements that everything he had done and said was a Lie (here the expiication)

That that was simply a character that he had hired, bought all the animals in his farm, and that he is not a veterinarian or has experience high-level expertise taking care of animals with the necessary knowledge.

And this man had a farm, a sanctuary where he had the animals, and it turns out that these animals he told people that they were rescued animals, and recently made the statements saying that all these animals were bought.

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All this great lie was discovered, and of course now he is with very low morale and is subject to public scorn after many years of being a famous television character and an important YouTuber and someone who really is an influencer on social networks.

Then this is a sample that lies sometimes are necessary to feed the ego of a person or maintain their lifestyle, and other times because they are justified to save lives, as in my case.

What I want to point out is that lies will always be discovered sooner or later and that they are something that are part of the nature of the human being.

And both those influencers who sell you products telling you that they are good and that they are a wonder, and in reality they do it only because they are paying you to do that promotion, resulting in that those products are really bad, until one as a common user who puts lies, I think it is something that is in the nature of the human being that comes with us.

And I cannot say that it is good or that it is bad, it is simply something that will continue to.

Many times it is necessary, it is necessary that there are lies to be able to discover the truths, and I think that one depends on the other.

It is like that there cannot be light if there is no darkness, because one thing depends on the other. So they are not excuses, but they are things that are axiomatic from my point of view.

And this has been my dissertation for today about lies for a reason.

I hope you have enjoyed it and that it has served you as learning something new or that it has taken you to other places that make you reflect and think new ideas.

Thanks for reading.

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