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You know, one of the great pariahs in our society is to be known as a hypocrite. For some reason, all of these people who go around saying one thing and doing another, find hypocrisy distasteful..mostly in others.
If we stop and think about it, the genesis of our distaste for hypocrisy comes from our habit of wanting easy sources of accurate information or good advice, without having to discriminate between which information is correct and which is not. Our disdain for hypocrisy stems from our own tendency toward laziness and our inborn desire for something to put absolute, uninterrupted faith in.
If this weren't the case, we would meet each statement with discrimination; rarely surprised when the information doesn't or does pan out as correct..since we wouldn't have automatically trusted in its accuracy anyhow.
But we WANT to trust in something without thinking about it. We just keep trusting in the wrong things.
We keep trusting in humans and when they turn out to be as changeable, fallible and imperfect as we are, we don't re-examine our decision to put faith in them.
Instead we put the blame, squarely in the lap of that someone else who, likely, never asked for our blind faith in the first place.
All of the confusion and apparent silliness of our attitudes toward hypocrisy aside, hypocrisy itself has a useful property which I would like to discuss here briefly.
For starters, hypocrisy invites debate. It invites conversation and exchange. All that has to be done, is to blatantly set ourselves up to be viewed as a hypocrites. Egos will do the rest.
For the same reasons, hypocrisy is extremely useful in finding the strong egos and posturers in unfamiliar situations. Again, simply setting one's self up as a hypocrite, without letting on that one is doing so, will have the emotional/intellectual predators, bullies and egos popping out of the crowd like popcorn. Knowing where they are, it's easy enough to navigate around them and their issues.
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