The Goverment We Deserve? - Pop Occulture

The Goverment We Deserve? - Pop Occulture:

"...To boil this all down, our government is built on layers and layers of people lying to their bosses and their bosses and their bosses, and so on. And at the bottom of the pyramid is us lying to the government, on forms, on taxes, whatever examples you want to use. Anyway this raises what I think is a great question: if Wilson is right, that our government is basically a hierarchy of people lying to one another, then are we getting the government we deserve? In other words, do our small lies snowball and snowball into bigger and bigger lies until people end up in secret prisons, and countries get taken over? If everybody in the hierarchy suddenly began being totally honest and open, would all the darkness dissolve? Would you stop lying to everybody everywhere at all times if this were the case, if total brutal honesty were the price of freedom and perfection?"