Back in the early seventies after the Beatle broke up. Paul McCartney and John Lennon exchanged sniping songs referencing each other, with Lennon’s, as would be expected, the more stinging and interesting.
Today, you don’t need to write a song in order to reveal the hypocrisy of others. The internet: Facebook, Blogs, websites, it’s all there with the user giving themselves a generous supply of their own rope.
If you would believe what people post on their Facebook accounts, everyone is happily married or in the relationship of their dreams, have the dream job, and are just loaded with friends. Not real “friends”, of course, but friends you collect like I used to collect baseball cards of semi-talented ball players. “Gotta collect ‘em all” It’s all about quantity over quality, getting as many as you can, the more you have, the better it looks, ad nauseum. It’s a county fair and circus all rolled into a nice superficial package.
Examples from Facebook, “I have recently started my own non-profit company”, should read “I am currently unemployed and living on my ex-girlfriend’s couch.
Another: “I am married to the love of my life” needs to say “My husband is a full blown alcoholic, who I can’t trust with my own children.”
I love when people reminisce about the past via some internet outlet; withholding and re-inventing facts to suit their whim and re-introducing themselves to a whole slew of new internet “friends” who have no idea of the truth. The ironic thing is they were lying and manipulating in real life all those years ago. Now it becomes some self-flagellating/masturbatory exercise for millions to see, the Hall of Mirrors and Fun House refracted back until the user no longer recognizes where the truth ended and the lies began.
There’s an old Russian proverb that says, “With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back.” The old Russian, of course, never blogged or had a Facebook account.
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