Lying is a very tricky business. There is probably a small segment of men and women who derive their share of life's thrills weaving tales but generally people would rather tell the truth if it does not hurt because it is far lot easier. With or without your consent the parts would fall naturally beautifully into their right places without effort because they REALLY happened. You lie and you have to keep on lying and lying and lying... since you have to prop up the first lie, with another and another and so on until you are caught in a web of your own making. Relief can be had with time and of course legal fences but in a time when information travels fast and furiously, the world having shrunk into a village of sort, and technology can be had to help out, lies can so quickly unravel as the missing and ill-fitted pieces would easily show their shape like in a jigsaw puzzle. Reason too why the legal profession has lost much of its lustre. With technology having earned people's trust, truth has become more compelling than the drama played up in the court by competing lawyers. Show us the truth; enough of legal goobledygook, they would say now, because it has become quite apparent, rightly or wrongly, that legal tricks can infact frustrate the end of truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson would say, it is the privilege of truth to be known. Indeed it is, but somehow we too learn it too late.
Now if one would like to see such a spectacle, see how the present administration is breaking apart with its foundation of lies and how generally honorable people dishonor themselves without compunction.
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