Why do we believe lies?

People are willing to hear lies if they benefit them. The lies that "might become true" are the things that are making some people jump about excitement. The lies look like this: "In our company, the person not attending school can earn 5000 dollars per day". 

Or "our CEO has ever been in any schools. And he raises to the position of the head of 3000 employees company because of the good scent". And then some person can add that the "you can make similar career". 

So 1/3000 workers can rise to the position of CEO. And the probability seems very good. The thing that makes some people believe those things is, that they are a touch of self-esteem. Those things are told multiplied in a way that those people want to hear.

People who are victims of that kind of lies are probably left their schools without graduating. So they want to hear things that support their choice. How do they confess to people around them that they made the right decision? And then some angel comes and tells that they have the salesman who earns 8000 dollars per week. 

People want to hear those kinds of things especially if they don't like schools. The thing is that there is the possibility that one of 3000 can raise to an important position. That thing doesn't feel lie at all. When people believe that kind of lie they are a little bit overoptimistic. They want to hear those kinds of stories of success. 

Do e believe lies, or are we just acting that we believe them? 

When people are telling things that are not true, they tell lies. But why do we believe lies? Or do we believe lies? The thing is this: there are many times when we are seeing that people are telling about things that are not true. But we are not telling that thing to the storyteller because we want to be polite. 

If some old or sick person tells things that are not the fact at their probably last birthdays we might not tell that those things that the person tells are not true. So we want to be polite, but we should tell our children that the things that they heard were against facts.

In the case of governmental propaganda, the thing that boosts misinformation is that there is only one acceptable truth. If people are criticizing that official truth they will get in trouble. 

So do we believe the lies? One thing is that the person who is our boss is telling lies. Should we tell that our boss tells lies, or keep our mouths shut? In those cases, we don't believe lies, but we are playing that we cannot see that person telling things that are not true.

But then we must realize that people who are telling lies. Are more often believing them than the people who are telling truth. There are two explanations for that interesting thing.  The person who tells lies might believe that nobody noticed that. 

The lies like using the wrong name or hiding some vital-looking information are status. That thing rises the position of the person in the social hierarchy. And that might give a false image about the lying skills of that person. The question is: does the henchman believe lies? Or are they just letting that thing be? If you would in Russia, and see that some FSB agent is telling very poor lies would you tell that person is lying?

In that case, the authority of the liar denies that the people will tell the things that person is lying. In that case, the authority denies that people are not fixing lies, even if they know that person is lying.  In those cases, the afraid of consequences is denying that people tell that person lies to them. 

The social pressure that forces people to act as they might look believe lies is that they have used the same lies themselves. That thing causes the force, that they must make the same things with their victims. The salvation of the cheater is sometimes that they are made the same things as their victims or they believed those things. So the social pressure makes them act against their knowledge. 

Sometimes in those cases, the social pressure is denying to fix the misinformation. When most people who use authority others believe misinformation,  there is needed big courage to fix those lies.  This is the reason why propaganda is targeted at the superiors. The idea is that it denies the criticism because people are afraid to hurt their boss's emotions. 

But the second thing why people who often tell lies also believe lies more often than people who are telling the truth is simple. Liars hear lies more often than people who tell truth. The reason for that is simple. People surround themselves with people similar to themselves. That means liars are surrounding themselves with other liars. And that makes them hear lies more often than people who tell truth. 

Sources:

https://scitechdaily.com/lies-that-might-eventually-come-true-people-willing-to-spread-misinformation-if-they-believe-it-could-become-true-in-the-future/

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About the truth and lies, what is written by poets and historians

Kimmo Huosionmaa

None historian ever told the absolute truth, and the history has been faked from ancient Greece. The reason, why historians told lies about the leaders was practical. If the leaders of the nations didn’t like the texts, what historians wrote, their fate was very painful death in the mouth of emperors pet crocodile or lion. In the real world, the politics have been the ruling element when historians wrote their texts.


When we are observing the familiar books like Julius Caesar’s ” War in Gallic” we must consider, that there are many things, what makes us to suspect that this book is some kind of ”better version” about the things, what claimed to happen, when Julius Caesar was head of the legions in Gallic. I believe that some of those texts are written in some European courts in the medieval period, or they can be made later.


The part of the book, where Caesar tells about the invasion of Britannia is a part, what is not written any master of poems and rhetorics. And when we are looking at the pictures of Dover straight, we must see that the horses are not suitable in that place because the crag is so high. So did somebody made that mistake on purpose? Another part of this column of the text is full of errors, and all story feels like they were in some taverna.


So if the writer made those errors on purpose, we must ask does he lived at the same time as Caesar. In this case, that part of the text has been written for making Caesar suspected as the liar. But if it is written after Caesar’s time, we must consider, that this text might be written in somewhere in Danmark, and it might be portrayed the coast of Sjelland or some other island.


We must say that there is no evidence, that Caesar ever visited north as Danmark. But when we are talking about his book, we must say that even this book is not probably written by Caesar himself. Or part of that book is maybe written by himself, but there might be many columns, what are written after Caesar’s death. And if he hired some professional writers, those persons might make mistakes on purpose, for making Caesar seem like the liar.


Many writers have also been writing false things, because of they afraid that if the emperor doesn’t like them they would be executed. This fate was faced Cicero, the famous Roman poet, and historian. He was killed by Antonius, and his tongue was nailed to the wall. It’s very sad end for great writer and speaker of history. In this case, we must say, that Marcus Antonius was not able to handle critics what he faced as the rank of the emperor.


And if the writings of some persons were not satisfied rulers, those men were executed. Even in the modern era, there are people sitting in jail because they have written something, what was uncomfortable for the rulers. When we are talking about leaders of the nations, they sometimes think, that every problem will be handled by arresting journalists and writers. But when we are thinking about the role of media, we must say that there are cases in history, that reporters start to publish texts, what would protect authoritarian and support censorship.


This is called ”official press”. Some countries like that they have freedom of speech, but only persons who have right to publish their texts are the ”official reporters”. In those countries, the press is in the main role to justify the political police control, and arresting what is targeted for the members of the opposition. So the press could also be a part of the authoritarian government and support the persecution what is targeted to political resistance.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero

https://crisisofdemocracticstates.blogspot.fi/

http://crisisofdemocracticstates.blogspot.fi/p/about-truth-and-lies-what-is-written-by.html