Why Do We Feel Compelled to Live a Lie and Project a Fake Image of Ourselves?
The problem is not the algorithm. The problem lies with us — we are natural-born liars.
“Organizations tend to check boxes and create false realities. Compliance has lost all meaning. And that was your big takeaway? I could have told you that.”
While on the plane home last week, a fellow passenger — a rather angry-looking man — asked me about my purpose in visiting Singapore.
So, I told him about the conference I attended, and it triggered a monologue on the problems in our world.
“Don’t we all act like the organizations you refer to?” he continued. “We pretend to be someone we’re not. Projecting a false reality that makes us appear to be more than who we truly are. I guess that about eighty percent of our lives are simulated or fake.”
“I’m not sure I’d go that far,” I mumbled.
“Ours is a world of true lies.”
I Am Whoever You Want Me to Be
He kept speaking, apparently without pausing for breath. Perhaps it was the rarified air or the captive audience (me), but he had a lot to say, and he certainly wasn’t interested in my views.
