Truth shall set you free?

If you are looking for a rare color of a car you just cannot get it. Unless there are enough people who want the same color a car company does not make it. So it is with democracy. You have the freedom to get  whatever every body else wants.  By definition that should not be called freedom but we often want what others want and that is why democracy and freedom are considered synonymous but they are not. In fact democracy restricts your freedom to desire only what the majority wants.

It is well known that college and school kids start drinking much before the legal age. The majority of voting people obviously have decided to restrict this freedom for those below 21. As a parent I would probably have voted with the crowd when my kids were young but I feel differently now. If indeed an 18 years old person is an adult what right do I have of restricting the freedom of another adult?

So what do the kids do to get their freedom? Lie. They use fake ID's or get an older kid to buy alcohol. And what would a politician do  to get what they want? Lie to change people's opinion in their favor and what is wrong with that?

The more I think the more I am convinced that the value of truth is over rated. I do not even fret over the lies perpetrated by religion considering the fact that these lies make people happy. After life is one such lie that was invented a few thousand years back that is still helping modern people face death.

Truth shall set you free? What truth?

Lie boldy

And learn this from the Republicans. Michelle Bachman was being questioned by Fox news as to why she had said that the US is becoming a socialist country and the net worth of companies owned by the US Government stands at 51% of the total market value of all the US companies. This was a bold lie as it always is with Fox and the Republicans party but in this case Fox was being beaten by Michelle Bachman. How can anyone be bolder than FOX news in telling lies so they challenged her.  FOX news said that we have calculated it and it comes to only 1.5%. I thought she was going to embarrass herself but she came up with the name of some report by some person who had claimed this percentage. So if you want to tell a bold lie simply ask some non-entity to write it somewhere on the Internet and now you can keep telling the lie boldly. If you get caught just quote the source. In the same interview on FOX she was claiming that 30,000 people have died in US killed by NATO operation. When confronted with this preposterous claim she said her source was the Libyan Government's report in a Libyan news paper! Why on earth would she believe the Libyan government you have to ask.

The job of the opposition is to replace the current ruling party  "ruining the country" with itself and if lies are necessary to change the people's opinion, so be it.  It is all for a good cause!