Truth, Honesty and Judgment

Now there is a hefty subject which many would fear to tackle.  In my experience the average person is truthful and honest in their dealings and seldom tells significant lies.  The occasional white lie perhaps but these can be excused because they are told to spare someone’s feelings or perhaps they are merely a slight exaggeration for the purposes of storytelling.  Or so they tell themselves.  The question is whether or not a white lie is a real lie and I leave that for you to answer. 

       Publicly we are inundated with lies on a daily basis from false advertising, to public officials lying about budgets, conduct, spending and what have you.  We have become so desensitized to the fact that we are lied to on a regular basis that we simply shrug our collective shoulders, grumble and move on with our life.  Why is that?  Why do we not become more enraged when the end result of these lies brings us consequences such as higher taxes for less return?  I do not understand us as the average citizen.  Are we too weighed down by our personal struggles in life to put up a fight in the larger realm?  Are we the type of people who give up before we have even begun?  I do not understand us.

       Now let’s look at the Idle No More protests that started late last year.  I admit I had only been paying superficial attention to this movement but finally realized that I should look further into the concerns and the reasons for the protest.  Below is a link to the history of the movement.  The fact is that the First Nations have taken a stand against the Harper government for bulldozing Omnibus Bills through parliament that essentially strip rights away from First Nations as well as other citizens.  Curiously the mainstream media have chosen to vilify the Idle No More movement in much the same way they attacked the Occupy movement of 2011.  The evolution of social media now begins to foil Corporate America in covering up these movements which may eventually lead to a mass uprising as citizens wake up to discover that they are no longer in the middle class but are now below the poverty line.  For those kowtowing journalists who fail to bring truth to their reporting, I say beware the day you too are in the breadline, due to downsizing and obsolete-ism in mainstream media. 

IDLE NO MORE LINK:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idle_No_More

Bill C-45 link:          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_C-45_Jobs_and_Growth_Act  and http://www.fin.gc.ca/pub/c45/4-eng.asp