We live in a world of paranoia. We live in a world where so much information is distorted, biased, and hidden from us. Newspapers, news programs and other types of media all have an agenda. No one really tells us the whole, impartial truth.
I was in University earlier today as this was mentioned, and it’s made me wonder; would it be better if we knew the truth about everything? Obviously within the media, this is never going to happen. But what about our own personal censorship?
I’m guessing that there’s no one on this earth that hasn’t had a bad word spoken about them. I never really think about it, but of course people have said bad things about me. Would you prefer to know what people have said about you?
We all do what the media does – we protect people from what they don’t need to hear. However, whilst honesty is good, the ‘what you don’t know can’t hurt you’, has relevance sometimes.
Even though we hear about war and death all of the time, we’re told about these kind of things in a particular way, and we’re only told certain things. Are there things that we’re better off not knowing? Is ignorance really bliss?
I'm sure you've heard of that question - if you had the option to know the day you're going to die, would you want to know? If we don't know about the bad things in life, then we can't focus on them. If you knew that people secretly hated you and you were going to loose your job next week, well, that would just ruin your day.
Maybe sometimes it would help if we forgot all the niceties and said to someone "Good morning, bad hair day today is it then?". Our lives are full of "hope you're okay"s and "you'll do fine"s, why doesn't anyone ever tell someone the truth, that things might not turn out okay? Maybe then we wouldn't be so shocked when things go wrong. Maybe someone needs to say to me "No Jess, a career in journalism won't buy you the life of Simon Cowell", and "No matter how many times you go jogging, you won't end up looking like Kate Moss".
I remember watching a film a few months ago, a badly made film with a good concept behind it (as many films are at the minute). It was called 'The Invention of Lying', and for those of you lucky enough not to have wasted two hours of your life watching it, it was basically set in a world where there was no such thing as lying. It made me wonder what this would actually be like. Aside from the fact that no-one would have any friends,wouldn't it be weird? I'd love to be brave enough to speak my mind all of the time. Not only do the media cover up the truth for many reasons, we're guilty of this, too. People lie for all sorts of reasons, we lie to make ourselves look better, we lie because of jealousy and pity...it'd be nice to know where we all stand for once.
Then again, if we lived in a world where people didn't hold back on telling me I was having a bad hair day, I wouldn't really see much difference, anyway.
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