How do you see the situation when naive people at work get fired and liars and fakes and bastards get promoted and move on to higher salaries? They will backstab you and just move up.Jackal wrote:It's like being a spy. I've heard a spy once say on an internet video that "you get really good at lying if you do it everyday from the moment you wake up til the moment you go to sleep."Winston wrote: How do you pretend to be something that you're not though?
Basically, very social people become expert liers and expert fakes because they've spent years practicing. Whereas more intellectual people like ourselves who actually have a conscience just think, "I don't want to lie all the time," and then we are considered naive and foolish by the masses.
But in my opinion, ethics always remain important. Some people in the world do value honesty and trustworthiness.
I have seen real cruel assholes, succeed and prosper and they were not intellectual, just lupine, totally " predatorial". And a nice guy would be left holding the bag. So, what is the point of being a nice guy? Do we finish last or do we win in the end? Religions teach us all this good behavior but I see the scowling wolf get all the spoils.