A Want of Frankness

In a world almost devoid of any honesty on an official level, what is needed is an injection of frankness. Yes, that is perfectly possible.

Most major problems in the world today are caused by the adroit implementation of dishonesty.

It is a fraud, for instance, and provably so by the inclusion of intent, deliberately to stunt children's minds in the pretense of imparting 'education'.

With their older brothers and sisters, it is a similar crime to limit their more senior instruction only to that specific level of ignorance which will hamper them and benefit those who wish to exploit them.

In the case of adults, to occupy their minds specifically with what will damage them mentally, morally and socially, whether simply to make loot by calling it 'entertainment', or to combine it with strategically shaping their political attitudes via propaganda, there again deception is involved.

The owners of the organs of communication, peddling their products under the flaunted banner of informing their readers and viewers, are defrauding their buyers if they provide anything other than the honest facts.

Politicians who initially commit, but then fail to deliver, promising to represent the electorate but pandering to those who prey on the electing public, again these are guilty of the crime of fraud. Serving up servitude under the guise of 'Democracy' and defining aggression as 'defense' cannot and should not ever be forgiven.

Worst of all is the infliction of the lie of finance and its manipulation to deprive all others even of the means of life. In this and in all these other things, apparent sincerity masqueraded under an imitation of religious devoutness surely has to evidence the most flagrant use of dissimulation.

Yes, there is an evident generalized dishonesty abroad in the world, and perhaps it can be remedied only by the pertinent application of frankness worldwide.

 

Gravity has an undeniable impartial honesty, and rope a wonderful frankness. A fall involving both may be only so short as the rope, but the stop is both abrupt and salutary, restoring an acceptable standard of cleanliness to a world presently so lamentably lacking in any such restraint.

As appropriate alternative, as an honest military application for once, a bullet is immediate in the brevity of its blunt message, its impact unmistakeable in its frank admonition not to cause wars and their cruelty and horrors again.

Surely, if we know what is good for us and right for them, we know where to start. We know who they are, their past crimes and their future declared intentions. But for all our sakes let us do what we must with neither politic delay nor any mealy-mouthed dishonesty of vacillating qualm or consideration of political advantage.

Then let Justice apply.