Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Everyone is Lying

The Speculum has been delicately separating the tissues of the collective body politic. You too can venture forth into the unknown, by studying the lies that all players maintain. The curious law here is that you can't change somebody unless you know yourself inside out thoroughly. In fact, there are just three ways to influence others: 1) by setting an example 2) by using suggestion 3) by using competition We can go even further into the marrow by just forgiving everyone, then asking other countries to enjoin us in severe self-criticism. Only an open admission of mistakes will generate the trust needed. If we hang our sins around our collective neck, other countries will be moved to do the same. Warriors often ended up fighting alongside their enemies, yielding a degree of mutual respect.
There are American lies, European and Russian lies, the lies of the politically active clergy, living lies of imposters, Israel's lies, Arab lies, the lie of ther militants and the terrorists. If is impossible to say one is more virtuous than the other, then how can one play a one-sided blame game? The price for a ticket to the admission of the 2 state solution, is self-critique, by all involved. For certainly the people of Palestine have failed - and that includes the 140,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank and the Golan. The American lies hurt the US by letting Israel do whatever it wanted - expand into Arab lands, using the gun to suppress even the local farmers. Both the Arabs and Israelis are sick. So too Russia, China, the USA.