Facades assured

Two Aesop's fables: 1) Fox gets its tail caught in a bear trap and loses its tail. He goes back to the other foxes and says, "Look, I have the latest fashion; you should all cut off your tails, too." Then the leader of the foxes says, "We all see through your acting. You simply got your tail caught in a bear trap."

There was no listed moral.

2) Fox walks past some grapes, and tries and tries to reach them but he can't. "Those grapes must be sour," he says.

I got these off of a Barnes and Noble reader of Aesop's fables. The whole book was an easy read and great fun.

Both of these are facades to greatest. They are also true to reality because people do behave like this.

Like how? Well I think the cognitive dissonance book I read really supports the first and second ones. We justify it to ourselves enough to try to say it out loud to other people. And it doesn't exactly have to be good reasoning. It could be bad, obviously bullshit reasoning. At least, bull shit to everyone else.

Why are we putting up facades? Maybe because they look like the real thing to us. Maybe we think that they could become better if we keep thinking about them, and pretending that they'll get better and better.

Some people really do fake it until they make it. They pretend like they're great and then faster than you can say "placebo-effect" they are already at the top. By the way, look out if they end up being your doctor, because I'm pretty sure it takes more than tricking yourself to really do anything. But at least we think we can.

Or we rationalize things so much that they look just like a facade, like they are, but very very small and trivial. Of course I was wearing an all right ball gown, maybe a woman would say, when in fact, it was on the line.

We boost shit circumstances to be fair, fair to good, and good to great, and we don't really know what to do usually to stop the lies, stop the pretending, and stop the bull shit.

Terror is when you realize how much of a problem this all is. More than 6,000,000,000 people are going through this craziness right now.