I am waiting for the day that everyone becomes honest. I used to be a big liar, I lied about everything. I would lie about if an actor was in this movie or that one, about if my mom was home, how JFK died. Hell, the reason I stopped lying was because on June 25, 2009, I realized it had been a whole 2-3 years since I heard anything about ol' Wacko Jacko. So I ran to my brother outside saying he had died of a heart attack. 3 hours later, I go to say goodnight to my mother, and on NBC is a special report: MJ had died.
Its not that I was touched by his death (Bad choice of words?), but ###$ was that a weird coincidence. I've had lots of those happen to me, and I just play it off as if it was nothing, but in my head, I'm going "HOLY ###$! I DID IT AGAIN!!!", like I'm a psychic or something. Still, I had decided not to lie for quite some time, it was just how this, along with Billy Mays and Farrah Fawcett's deaths happening practically on the same day; that was just weird. But the reason I swore off lying was because the news droned on about MJ's death for 2 months. His funeral was hit by 1 billion watchers online, on TV and some hobo's outside the Staples Center. It felt like God was rubbing it in my face. "You lied and he died! You lied and he died!".
So, since I've sworn off lying, I've become truthful and honest about everything. Hell, that's how I got my first girlfriend; she liked how I was honest. If an outfit made her look fat, I told her "Yeah, try something else". Then it turned out she was cheating on someone else with me, putting Zack and I in a major AIDS scare (Detailed here: http://www.psychforums.com/dissociative-identity/topic63241.html), and overall crushed C... what a jerk move on her part.
Honesty before the fact could have sparred us. "I'm with someone else". "Why? Am I not good enough for you?". "No, trust me, your EXCELLENT, its just that I hate monogamy, that's all!" She told me her ex was still ######6 her, then THIS was her reason why.
I would have understood "I still have feelings for him". But she clearly did not! In fact, 2 weeks after saying "I'm not having sex with you anymore. Sorry" by text (C. insists I keep it on my cell), she broke up with her ex and started dating/screwing the roommate. Girls, you wonder where all the good guys are? You left us in the friend zone.
Lack of Honestly extends beyond myself, obviously. There is tons of material given to us everyday from Fox News. They don't lie about everything; in fact most of what they do is actually (surprisingly enough) Fair and Balanced news. They report on stories that frighten us, sure, or just general #######4, but 15/24 hours are spent on news. Or adverts for Cash4Gold or Cialis or that "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!" deal. The rest of the time is spent on the $#%^ Jon Stewart and Bill Maher like to poke fun at. Fox and Friends, The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity, etc. These super-right wing shows that frankly tell more lies per second than Casey Anthony at a Shrek themed Pool Party. (Y'know, cause Shrek lives in a swamp... never mind.) And yet, DESPITE the fact that a good chunk of their time is actually news, most people haven't seen Fox on a daily basis. I have to, whenever I visit my Grandmama. That's literally all she watches, and because there's nothing else to do at her house, its watch that.
But honest shouldn't stop there. TLC has a show called Toddlers and Tiaras. They garnered major controversy lately by dressing a 3 year old as a hooker. Now, first off, I've worked in TV production officially for 2 years, unofficially for about 7-8. Yes, I've been doing this $#%^ since I was 11. There's a girl dressed like a hooker, were focused on that right now. Heres the link:
http://www.eonline.com/news/did_toddlers_tiaras_finally_go_too_far/262300
Now, as someone who's studied television production my whole life, I can tell you that the crew had...
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