http://www.jrganymede.com/2016/01/07/christians-required-to-be-dishonest-at-work/
I should make clear that my criterion for dishonesty is anything less than being as honest as possible at all times and about everything.
Being deliberately misleading (including hype, spin, selective exaggeration or hiding of problems etc) these are all dishonest: and indeed among the very worst and most insidious types of dishonesty - not least because they are 'deniable', hence insidious.
This type of expedient, deniable dishonesty is indeed endemic and almost universal in Britain - in mainstream public discourse of all kinds (including science, academia and medicine - which I know best), and even in most private discourse - in a way that was not the case forty, or even thirty, years ago.
The dishonesty is most obvious when it is self-serving - but most powerfully enforced (and difficult to resist) when it is regarded as (and may well be) necessary for the survival and/ or thriving of employing institutions - so we are asked/ required to be dishonest (as dishonest as we can get away with - without actual fabrication) for the good of our colleagues/ institution/ profession.
It is all part of a concerted campaign to control the population. If you make people complicit in smaller lies and deceptions, they will have a harder time confronting the bigger lies and deceptions of the elites. Corrupt in order to control. There is much truth to the old adage that you cannot cheat an honest man.
ReplyDelete@M- I'm sure you are right at the highets level of leadership - also it ensures everybody in breaking the rules, and therefore vulnerable. But what is so depressing is how this culture has been embraced by the English - who used to be (boringly) honest! But the English without Christianity have very little moral core from which to resist doing whatever is asked of them.
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