Radical Honesty

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The biggest thing addiction does to a person is turn them into a liar. It puts you in such a compromised position that getting your fix becomes the entire focus of your life, often by any means necessary, including dishonesty with friends, family, and authority figures. 


Its a lie pit that sucks you into a state of deception and a deluded mind. Often times you have to hit rock bottom before you can rise out of addiction, but sometimes rock bottom is a long way down.


The most important path out of a compromised life, whether addiction or other corruptions of the body and mind is radical, uncompromising honesty. Telling the truth to the best of your ability all the time. Yes, telling the truth can get you in trouble. It can get you fired. You can lose friends. You can lose your marriage. You can go to jail. You can lose a lot. But its the only way to break addiction. Its the only way to get into a position where you can get help. Even if honesty comes at a brutal price in the short term, down the road in the long term it can set you free from guilt and shame...


     As someone who has struggled with severe mental health issues at times, radical honesty keeps my mind clean and gives the people in my life some better tools to work with in the effort to help me. Its like confessing your sins and mistakes to God and to friends. Honesty cleanses your mind and helps you stay out of delusion and mental ambiguity.  


     I try to tell the truth, to the best of my ability, all the time. Its one of the most effective methods of healing, and the most important.


In a big picture perspective, mass lying and distortion of reality can cripple entire societies and even lead to atrocity and genocide. The say in war truth is the first casualty. Of course it is. If everyone told the truth, the war would become unnecessary. 


     The only way to heal a broken nation and a broken world is to value the truth and for the culture as a whole to tell the truth, as much as possible, in all you do and in all your life. Deception destroys. Deception kills. As a nation, if dishonesty pervades leadership to a massive extent, its only a matter of time before the system of your nation fails. It is also only a matter of time before some of the most egregious atrocities conceivable start occuring

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