Why is the truth ignored in place of a good sounding lie?

Question

Please explain your meaning.

Thanks.

Answer 1

There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.
— William James

A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth.
— G. Goebbels

Their will to believe vanquishes every disquieting fact, every contrary line of reasoning, no matter how compelling to an impartial eye. Psychologists have a frightening arsenal of terms for the mental habits designed to preserve cherished beliefs: dissociation, absolutist thinking, dichotomization, object permanence, nominal realism, phenomenalistic causality and worse.
— Gary Sloan

You asked: "Why is the truth ignored in place of a good sounding lie"? The reason is we are hard-wired to look for patterns of familiarity and reject any stimuli that doesn't fit our preconceived 'stereotypes". Otherwise, we'd be overwelmed with information. As Tom Peters said, “we are drowning in information and starved for knowledge”.

All the time we are aware of millions of things around us--these changing shapes, these burning hills, the sound of the engine, the feel of the throttle, each rock and weed and fence post and piece of debris beside the road--aware of these things but not really conscious of them unless there is something unusual or unless they reflect something we are predisposed to see. We could not possibly be conscious of these things and remember all of them because our mind would be so full of useless details we would be unable to think. From all this awareness we must select, and what we select and call consciousness is never the same as the awareness because the process of selection mutates it. We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.
— Robert Pirsig, (Zen & Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance; p.69)

We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are
— Old Talmudic saying

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble across a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it representative of a whole class.
— Walter Lippman, (1929)

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices – just recognize them.
— Edward R Murrow

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
— Gordon W.

Stereotypes are a real time saver.
— From www.theonion.com T-shirt store.

Stereotypes are the mind’s shorthand for dealing with complexities. They have two aspects: they are much blunter than reality; they are shaped to fit a man’s preferences or prejudgments. Thus two principles are involved: differentiation or its lack, and biased preferential perception.
— Robert E. Lane

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
— Albert Einstein

We must train ourselves not to see the world only through our own eyes.
— Michael Levine

Each person paints their picture of reality with a brush dipped in the pigments of the past.
— Jerry Andrus

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
— Albert Einstein

Enlightenment is illusion-free reality.
— Buddha, [Siddhartha Gautama] (?563-?483 B.C.E.)

Answer 2

We all want to stay as comfortable, 'as' we are. So, we'd rather have the world around change for us, instead of we changing anything, about ourselves.

We believe the momentary bliss or comfort of our chosen ignorance can last the lifetime. But that is far from truth, as sooner than later truth catches up on us, as our truth is always reflected by the life around us.

So, in the long run we have to eventually surrender to the flow of truth; as the longer we stay in the ‘falsehood; more disharmony we create with in with ‘flow’ of life, which is essentially the truth of the present moment followed by another. Soon our life starts showing signs of our inner falsehood, it start getting more and more tough, as life always reflects back our inner truth.

As always, it is only the truth that set us free, the truth of the moment.

Answer 3

The lie is like fluff . To me it is used to fill up space and to block us away from the truth. In most cases it feels good, at the time, to hear the lie.

Answer 4

Because the rules of association says so. the good is better than the bad...So if the lie is good, and the truth is bad, then the lie is better than the truth.


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Answer 5

That happened simply because they want to hide the truth. They wanted to pursue things at their advantage. People tend to do this for their own personal interest.

Answer 6

Cowardice. It takes guts to actively seek the objective truth.

Answer 7

There is more money in organized lies. Who wins elections without money . I'm sure there is more good question!

Answer 8

because we like things that sound good