l*******G
发帖数: 1191 | 1 This is ZT from http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/extraordinaryissue/entry/the-industry-of-lies
The question is :
Why do we lie so much in this world to be able to succeed? What's wrong?
Have you noticed how we have, in recent times, institutionalised the art of
cheating? In fact, we have built so many successful enterprises around it
that we have now actually forgotten why these industries first came up.
Botox was initially not about enhancing our looks, as we have now come to
believe. It was to allow us to lie about our age. Lipstick was not initially
about making lips look bright and pretty. It was about hiding black,
chapped, smoker lips or covering up thin, pursed, ugly lips and giving a
woman a more inviting, more pleasant look. This was fine as long as you did
not take the woman home and wake up the next morning beside her in bed and
discover that, in the bright light of morning and minus her make up, hair
extensions, coloured lenses and double push up bras, she looked nothing like
the woman you had dated the night before. We are all constantly in the
business of creating expectations we can never fulfil. That is the lie.
Advertising is built on that premise. (That's why most of us don't believe
them any more.) Movies are marketed on that premise. (That's why so many of
them fail.) Marriages are built on that premise. (That's why divorces are so
rampant.) Consumer purchases are built on that premise. (That's why
consumer courts are so busy.) Increasingly everything is built on lies.
Promise more than you can or ever intended to deliver. That explains
continuing shifts in brand loyalty, and frequent breakdowns in relationships
of trust. In fact, trust is the first casualty in the Age of Consumerism.
Every consumer today is shopping for new options because the existing ones
always end up in disappointment. When that happens in terms of unimportant
stuff, it's fine. You live and learn. But when you are cheated about things
you fantasise about, that's when real problems begin. You can't buy a
Ferrari and find out that it doesn't do more than 40. You can't lust for a
woman and then discover her gorgeous assets are silicon-based. You feel not
just disappointed. You feel cheated.
British retailer Marks and Spencer are now marketing pants for men with
sagging bums as if selling bras for women to boost breast size was not
enough. Imagine the mutual disappointment (and outrage) when both sides take
their clothes off to make out for the first time. It's like hiring a
Michelin chef and discovering that all he can cook is a greasy omelette. But
the best is yet to come. M&S will now be offering frontal enhancement pants
for men that will them a bigger bulge! The reasoning is simple. If women
can get away with clothes and cosmetics that flatter their appearance, why
can't men get away with a similar lie? Thus begins a new battle between Mars
and Venus. If you can cheat me about your assets, why can't I? That's the
new argument between lovers. At least Viagra enhances your performance. But
frontal enhancement pants are a clear and flagrant lie. It's a promise
without any ability to deliver. It creates expectations that can never be
fulfilled.
The Bodymax Collection, as this range is being called, offers to make men
look sexier. The $25 bum lift underpants promise not just to raise the
posterior by 20% but also give women the false impression that the men they
are dating have bigger, fuller sized bottoms. The $15 frontal enhancement
pants claim to result in a 38% visual enhancement in the size of a man's
assets as the result of what is euphemistically described as "an integral
shelf". The M&S underwear boss claims that their "technologists have worked
hard to engineer styles that are comfortable to wear and give real results".
Kindly note the expression "real results". What real results can lying
underwear give? That's my simple query. Real results can only be given by
real men with real assets, not lying men wearing fake assets.
This is why banks go under, when bankers bankroll fake assets. This is why
nations go under, when Governments issue paper based on unreal assets. This
is why relationships go under when people realise that what impressed them
most about the other person simply does not exist, never did. They were sold
a blatant, shameless lie.
One may not expect the whole world to live by the truth of Yudisthira. And
even Yudhisthira once lied at the most critical time of battle to unfairly
allow the murder of Drona. But to build a consumer society based almost
entirely on the edifice of lies is perhaps not such a great idea. It can
only lead to more disappointments, more heart breaks, less faith. Not just
between men and women who keep failing each other but also between brand and
consumers in a world where truth has become so scarce that we wouldn't
recognise it even if we bumped into it in broad daylight.
The above applies to job applications, within which applicants lie about
their capability and recruiters like about their job opportunity; also to
research funding proposals, within which researchers lie about what they can
can actually achieve with the requested money, ....
Again, what's wrong? | m********l
发帖数: 4394 | 2 LOL, this is stupid.
what so good about the truth?
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initially
【在 l*******G 的大作中提到】
: This is ZT from http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/extraordinaryissue/entry/the-industry-of-lies
: The question is :
: Why do we lie so much in this world to be able to succeed? What's wrong?
: Have you noticed how we have, in recent times, institutionalised the art of
: cheating? In fact, we have built so many successful enterprises around it
: that we have now actually forgotten why these industries first came up.
: Botox was initially not about enhancing our looks, as we have now come to
: believe. It was to allow us to lie about our age. Lipstick was not initially
: about making lips look bright and pretty. It was about hiding black,
: chapped, smoker lips or covering up thin, pursed, ugly lips and giving a
| m********l
发帖数: 4394 | 3 How about this:
the truth is... you have small peepee
of
initially
【在 l*******G 的大作中提到】
: This is ZT from http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/extraordinaryissue/entry/the-industry-of-lies
: The question is :
: Why do we lie so much in this world to be able to succeed? What's wrong?
: Have you noticed how we have, in recent times, institutionalised the art of
: cheating? In fact, we have built so many successful enterprises around it
: that we have now actually forgotten why these industries first came up.
: Botox was initially not about enhancing our looks, as we have now come to
: believe. It was to allow us to lie about our age. Lipstick was not initially
: about making lips look bright and pretty. It was about hiding black,
: chapped, smoker lips or covering up thin, pursed, ugly lips and giving a
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