The Strawberry Moon- Fragmented
You know why lies bother us so much? It's not only due to trust, but also in part to a fragmentation of our reality. We asa people are constantly asking why. This is our aging process that is begun at birth. The cosntant process of asking 'why'. As children we ask simple questions, bu progressively the build on one another, expanding our knowledge and fact base. As we grow, the expansion of our knowledge base, we become more and more itnergrally tied to basic and fundamental realites, so that when agreement by other parties is removed, it rocks our entire foundation of reality. To expand upon agreement, this is where we get into the interpersonal aspects of knowledge and core foundations. Everyday, we go through life in modes of agreement- from the simplest activity of walking into a room, to international politics and global strife. Every action, every moment of our existance is made reality through these agreements. Take walking into a room for example. When you walk into that room, it is commonly agreed upon either in your own mind should the room be empty, or between yourself and another. It is agreed that there is a couch and a chair. It is agreed that the walls are blue. And through this agreement, we validate our knowledge base, we validate our reality. If I were to point out that there is a book behind the other person in the room, but they couldn't see it- that is an agreement, a trust that is put in the knowledge of another. If the person believes that the book exists behind them, they take that information and incorporate it into their knowledge base, thereby agreeing with the other persons perception. However, should the other peson be lying, not only have they broken a fundamental trust, but they have caused a massive overhaul to ahve to occur. To take someones word, to enter into our everyday agreemnts, so small yet so significant, is to add to your knowledge base of facts. Whether these be perceptionsof the world, r mathematical theory, they all stand as truths and realities in our mind. So to take someone sword for something so simple, is really to allow them to access your fundamental reality. This is why lkies, even small lies, are such massive disruptors in everyday life. When you lie, the person you lie to is taking that information (if the ybelieve you) and basing thier reality off it. Every small pereception or experiance we have is just another brick to add to the wall. But the wall builds on itself. If one brick is alter found to not exist, or to have crumbled, it weakens the structural intergrity of the whole wall. When the structural integrity is weakened, it means that it must be reassesed. Not just the area where the specific problem originated, but the entire wall. What else might have crumbled, what else might not exist? Through this reassement, we waste our energy and time. We shorten our time, if you subscribe to the belief that to ask why, is to age. (Asking why being building a foundation of facts and reality thereby experiancing life, and to die, having created a structure so immense it topples down on itself) We shorten it through expending that much more time and energy into recreating aspects of our own knowledge base, and reassessing what tles might be problematic. Lies are tools to bend reality, and thus should not be taken lightly. It is not only the manipulation of one aspect of the self, or of a relationship- it is the manipulation of the whole self... physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, perceptual. All of these selves, and the self as a whole are based around the core of central knowledge, so to manipulate that core, to lie and bend it to a reality that is not commonly agreed upon- is to weaken another. It is not only that we trust people not to weaken us, that is disturbing about lying. It is the fact that it touches that core of reality so gravely, and yet so often. That though only touching one small amount of surface area of the water, that it ripples out to the rest, spreading- and in a sense infecting all that is encountered within us.