*The Truth Always Floats on Top

The renowned British PM Winston Churchill served his nation most critically in wartime,during which artful lying, called disinformation, was a common strategy. He once said, "In wartime, truth is so precious that she (truth) should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." I think this is not only true for wartime but for anytime these days. Everyone, including the formerly reliable sources of news, seem to take lying as commonplace phenomenon. Service providers lie far beyond what their services could ever give to their customers; products are no more what they boast in their cover stories. In fact, most of them, to our shock, are providing the contrary. We all know that ads are often hypes, but these which I refer to, go well beyond one's imagination. Businesspersons have become so greedy in faking original products using hazardous ingredients risking their own people merely for being criminally prosperous. People in government often lie in the pretext of "national interest'. Politicians have become such crooked liars and elusive, using their positions to become wealthy, and making under-the-table deals with businesspersons, or even criminal figures. Even the last ones to be liars, in my opinion - religious leaders (priests, pastors, sheiks, etc.) as well as medical doctors, nurses and the like - are seen practicing unethically and turnout to be felons, misappropriating their own fellow folks, at times, depriving them from their life-savings and exposing them to health risks. Despite a few cries here and there, who value truth as the only way out, what we generally witness on everyday basis is just the opposite, including the laws of the court in upholding this precious entity called TRUTH. Whether I am overstating the realty, or faking has become today's normality, I can't tell. However, I smell a rat in most offices these days. Should we simply see truth to be the thing of the past and compromise with whatever comes at our disposal? I don't think so. Whether we want it or not, the truth always floats on top...gradually!!

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