Acceptance of untrue, fake things a challenge!

W Enow live in a virtual world, or so the saying goes, right? We now routinely have virtual meetings, virtual conferences, virtual court hearings, virtual trials, virtual weddings, virtual parties, virtual graduations, and in fact almost virtual everything! We even work virtually these days. It looks like very soon we might be able to do almost everything virtually!

The only things which we have not managed to do virtually is to eat, to go to the toilet, or to sleep virtually, right? These things have to be done for real, in real terms and not virtually. They cannot be done virtually! I want to contend herein and now that it is our easy acceptance of this ‘virtualism’, which has led us to similarly accept virtual things in the realm of reality versus fiction in a way which is not at all good for our health and well-being in today’s world! We have now normalised the acceptance of untrue or fake things as if they were true or real. We no longer see anything wrong with fake things or with just faking it. We now think that it is normal to be fake or to just fake it! Such an attitude is not, and cannot be good for us. It has got disastrous consequence at all levels of human existence from personal level to community level. We cannot live in a fictitious world, and yet we seen to have accepted to do just that! At the very basic human and personal level, we have now come to accept and normalise that it is okay, right or even desirable for our women (and some men too) to put on fake hair, fake eye lashes, fake eyebrows, fake nails, fake boobs, fake bums and fake complexions. These days when you see a women on the street and you like the way she looks, you may never know whether those looks are fake or real. Many men have taken very beautiful looking ladies from the bar overnight only to wake up with very different and not so beautiful looking ones the next morning!

The worst case scenario is when they wake up with other men in bed instead of the beautiful women whom they thought they came home with the previous night! These days we have also normalised men behaving and looking like women in the name of ‘I do not know what!’ Without sounding homophobic, the fact of the matter is that every one of us is born either a genetic male or female. However, these days we seem to have accepted that even your very own nature endowed gender, sex or sexuality is just matter of personal choice and not a matter genetic endowment of which or about which you have absolutely no choice! Is that so?

Really? I don’t know! But the fact of the matter is that in today’s cantankerous world, we have come to accept that a genetic male can choose to become and behave as a female and vice versa! We do not see any problems with that! What a fake world we live in today!

This is the point, isn’t it?

At political leadership and government levels, we have also come to accept public leaders (politicians) and public institutions (governments) who and which do not work or deliver as they should, but just fake it. Come election times, we vote for politicians who routinely make false promises to us. We vote for politicians who promise us heaven on earth, even if and when we know that there is no such thing as heaven on earth because this earth is and will always be full of trials and tribulations of all sorts. We vote for politicians who promise to build bridges for us where there are no rivers, to solve problems which we do not have or which do not exist, and to give us what they do not have themselves or cannot give.

Basically, we vote for politicians who promise to do things which we know that they cannot do or cannot be done! Any politician who promises us reality, the one who promises to do what he can do and what can actually be done together with us and with our own input would be roundly and off-handedly rejected in favour of these fake charlatans who promise us fake things! Is this our new normal, good people, a fake normal?

This is exactly our biggest challenge today! We have normalised the acceptance of untrue and fake things all round! And it not at all good for us! For example, at the religious level today, we have now normalised and accepted the lie that religion, religious denominations and churches belong to specific individuals. And yet religion is actually a universal concept and belief which is not owned by anyone, and does not belong to anyone in particular.

Such being the case, and through our blind religious beliefs and followings, we have now created very powerful and politically influential religious leaders who routinely boss us around and toy with our lives at will. If they tell us to jump, we just jump as high as we can without even asking them why we should jump at all in the first place! We are now just their zombies or puppets with whom they toy around with at will. We give all our monies to them in the name of giving it to God when in fact God never needs any money from us because all we have, including ourselves, belongs to him in the first place.

Our chosen religious leaders make us do despicable things like eating grass or drinking toxic concoctions in the name of I don’t know what! Sometimes they make us to even kill ourselves or our very own fellow human beings in the name of God or religion! What has gone wrong with us, good people? Are we now so dumb and so fake that we cannot even see beyond our noses? Going back to politics, that very important aspect of our lives which affects every other aspect of our lives, we have now normalised and accepted fake things to the point of self-destruction! We have now come to accept and even yearn for political party representatives as our representatives or representatives of the people in all our so called modern democracies. If democracy is defined as government of the people, for the people, by the people, how come then that we accept the untrue and fake view that democracy can be government of political party representatives, by political party representatives, and for the benefit of political party representatives and their political parties? Yet our current governance systems are testimony to the fact that we have now normalised and accepted being governed by political party representatives and not by our very own people based, people derived, people chosen, people oriented and people allegiant representatives! What a pity this is indeed!

And is it any wonder then as to why our politics is always a struggle without an ending? If there is anything which proves that we are incapable of solving anything in this world, it is our failure to reign in our politics. The fact of the matter is that due to our normalised acceptance of untrue and fake political ideologies, we have actually now been grappling in vain with politics for millennia, right? I really do not understand why politics should be such a difficult proposition. We all know that in truth, a leader is only a leader if the people he or she leads freely, truly and genuinely accept him or her as their leader, regardless of how he or she come into power, right? This is a fact of life. But we have now normalised and accepted the lie that some people are born leaders or were born to be leaders and yet this is absolutely not true or correct at all. Such being the case, those people whom we have incalculated into them the notion that they were entitled to leadership, be it at political, business, family, community or societal level, have gone on to act as if they were God-sent and God-given leadership Messiahs who cannot be challenged by anyone much to the detriment of everyone involved, including themselves. This is not good at all, good people. Instead of normalising political harmony, unity, cohesion and togetherness, we have now normalised and accepted the existence of political dissent, disharmony, division and disunity among ourselves. And yet for us to truly succeed in this life and in this world, we really need to and must realise the fact that in spite all our differences in opinions or perspectives on life, and how we must be governed or govern ourselves, ultimately we are just one people, in one world or one country, and bound together by one overarching destiny whether we like it or not. Such being the case, there is much to be gained from deliberately pursuing the policy of purposeful unity than from pursuing that of selfish and individualistic desires! We can all benefit ad infinitum from normalising and accepting the truth than from normalising the acceptance of fake and untrue things, right? For example, wherever there may be dissent, be it at individual level, bilateral level, family level, clan level, community level, or national level, our normalisation and acceptance of the fake notion that regardless of the rationale and logic therein or thereof, one power is ordained to prevail over the other, has led to the nasty, avoidable and irretrievable breakdown of bilateral friendships, family relationships, clan cohesion, community togetherness, and national unity and political stability. It has led to unnecessary, unwinnable and avoidable fatal battles and all sorts of conflicts.

In any situation where there may be different and divergent views, it is more helpful to take on the correct attitude and notion that ideas and views must the judged on their own individual merits or demerits and not on the basis or who originated those ideas. The fact of the matter is that sometimes the best ideas which would save the day and solve very big national challenges may actually originate from commoners, while some of the most ruinous ideas may actually originate from those in positions of power and authority! The battle must be the one of ideas and not of individuals. If the battle is made to be of and about ideas as it actually is and must be made to be, then there is absolutely no reason why people must die or must be killed in such a battle. Instead, it is bad ideas which must be killed through consensus seeking civilised discussions and dialogue and not people. There is absolutely no reason why people should be killed or die in a battle of ideas. And yet we have come to accept and normalise the practice of people being killed or dying in a battle of ideas! Good people, can we not realise that it is our normalised acceptance of untrue and fake things which is our biggest challenge in this world today? I rest my case.