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Synopsis : Some people think that being deceitful works
to their advantage but it doesn’t. It always comes back to bite them because
sooner or later they get caught. The culture of deceit drags people down the well
they can’t escape from.
There was an Indian who
watched a milk delivery man in a rural England village who brought in bottles
of pure milk and left it at the doorsteps of houses while collecting the empty
bottles. He asked the milkman how could he make a profit by selling pure milk
this way when diluting the milk with water could earn him a handsome profit.
The old milkman was shocked at
such immoral suggestion and asked the Indian if he had children at home and how
would he feel if his children were cheated this way. The Indian had no answer
and hung his head in shame. The old milkman said we do not do such despicable things here in this country.
Now I see that people
everywhere are adopting a culture of deceit without a second thought and feel
that some money should be made no matter what the method so we find the peas
that look green are in fact dyed in green and possibly toxic color, the gills of
fish are dyed red to make it look fresh, chicken pumped up with water to cheat
at the weight, the milk diluted and crème removed before selling it as fresh
pure milk. The list of fraud and cheating is very long and the traders are
finding new ways every day to cheat people. Once I was given good looking
cashews to taste in a shop in Delhi so I bought some but they extract the oil that
they sell at a high price and still sell the tasteless cashews to make double
profit and fool people.
The vegetable vendor cheats
you with his sleight of hand and gives you less weight, the gas station
attendant gives you less gasoline than what you pay for, the cloth merchant
gives you less cloth than what you pay for etc. These are some of the examples
of how people cheat you every day when you go out to buy anything which shows
how morally bankrupt people have become these days everywhere.
Today I will write about other
ways people have started to cheat and show how far they have descended into the
immoral abyss that will boggle your mind. It is probably expected of traders to
cheat because it seems to be in their DNA. Their greed for money that they want
to earn no matter what is the method that puts them in the category of the
Shylocks of this world.Woe to you if you ever borrow money from them because
they will take a pound of your flesh with no Portia to defend you.
But what do you say to people
who seem to be well educated and who resort to plagiarism in the most blatant
way possible? You will find them in the media where the reporter or the anchor
gives no credit to the source and claims it as his original effort to gather
data. Occasionally they get caught of plagiarism and are forced to admit on air
and apologize so they get a bit red faced but shake it off as nothing of
consequence.
I was told by a college
professor how some of his students just copy and paste some articles for their
term paper from google and try to pass it on as something they have written.
They get caught when the professor notices the same paragraph appearing in
other’s term papers as well.
If you go to Washington D.C.
and visit the government offices, you will notice a number of sneaky looking
people with a briefcase in their hand lurking around. They are called the
experts or the so called experts who are desperate for some consultancy to pay for
their bills so will present themselves to various offices to try their luck. When
they get lucky, the government hires these so called consultants and pays them
handsomely to prepare a project proposal let us say in Afghanistan and pays
them to visit the country to gather data and interview people there.
Soon they present their
project proposal that looks impressive at the first glance but all they present
is what they have copied from google and some cursory data they have gleaned in
Kabul. So all these experts start their report by saying that Afghanistan is a dirt poor land locked country
where people live on less than a dollar a day if they can earn that much.
They all carry laptops and can
be seen typing away furiously at any airport waiting lounge or somewhere but
they earn a handsome fee for their plagiaristic effort they pocket without the
slightest amount of shame.
I have seen the same thing at
the UN that also hires these so called experts to write voluminous reports on
various projects or proposed projects in Africa and other regions.
Now I can’t blame google for
this spate of copy and paste behavior because google is just a search engine
that everyone uses so google is not responsible for their behavior. What is so
shameful in this degradation of ethics and amoral behavior is the fact that it
has permeated all the way from the experts down to the teenage high schoolers
who see nothing wrong.
I also notice something else
called lip synching that artists, singers and TV presenters frequently use to
fool people. The Chinese used a small girl to sing the opening song for the
Beijing Olympics so the poor child was asked to lip sync the song they had
prerecorded to fool everybody. When it leaked out, they said that they wanted a
perfect grand opening. The Bollywood movie actors and actresses who do not know
how to sing anything only lip sync songs a background singer has sung. I liked
the movie A star is born where Streisand and Kristofferson sang their songs.
That is called honesty.
But the artists who lip sync
are dishonest so people feel cheated. They pay for very expensive tickets to
see and hear a well-known artist who presents her song as if she was singing
but she was lip synching because she had a slight sore throat that day. An
honest person admits to her fans that she is lip synching but they are not
honest and say - what is the harm if no
one finds out? The only problem is
that people do find out and feel cheated. It is the worst feeling anyone can
have.
I notice something else these
days. It is when the TV program presenters like in Japan has talent or The
Philippines has talent copy everything from the original show down to the
shape of the judge’s chairs to the clothes the presenters wear. They do not
stop there. They imitate the way the original show presenter talks, gestures , her
body language and her hair color so you will see Asian women who dye their hair
yellow and wear blue or green contact lenses presenting the caricature of the
show but feel no shame.
It makes me wonder what
happened to originality. Why such shameful imitation is quite common these days?
Is talent so hard to find? There are wonderful artists and personalities who
can bring any show on TV alive but why they are not given the opportunity to do
so? Why totally worthless people irritate you with their antics on TV every day
not to mention the pitiable transvestites with false breasts and miniskirts.
They do not fool anybody but people say that it is all entertainment. I call it
nepotism that is widely prevalent in the entertainment industry.
There was a TV show long ago
which thankfully has been discontinued when a fellow was asked many questions
by a panel of judges so he struggled to answer them, sweated and fidgeted but came
out with an answer that the judges applauded. The show became popular enough to
have its own franchise so it made money until someone leaked that whole show
was based on fraud. The fellow fidgeting and sweating was a part of the fraud
because he was given the answers through his tiny ear phone that was carefully
hidden. When confronted, the producer shrugged it off by saying that it was all
entertainment so a bit of fraud to get the ratings was justified. They are
after the ratings and do not care how they get the higher ratings. The higher
ratings bring in millions of dollars’ worth of advertising so fraud is quite
acceptable.
A noted musician who wrote
music and sang it in the Indian Bollywood movies said one day that he was
retiring sadly because now the producers had computerized music recorded for
auditing so they did not need a gifted singer to sing the entire song. They can
now copy and patch an audio or video anyway they want because they want to cut
down the cost but the audience does not see the difference. They too have
become a part of the copy and paste culture using modern technology but lost
the originality for which the earlier artists were known and appreciated.
I am sure a time will come
soon when actors and actresses will be recorded on film singing or dancing or
acting all virtually or through a 3 D virtual reality based program. Such
movies will be made at a lower cost using very efficient computer programs.
Some studios are already using the technology to make movies like Lion King or
that stupid squirrel that is always chasing his acorn. They generate images
using computers that look so real that will impress anyone.
They can show the destruction
of the White House or the Hoover dam by using computers so we don’t know what
we see is real or not. The robots or the animated characters are so human like
now that they may soon put the highly paid actors and actresses out of
business.
It is OK to use the technology
to make movies and avoid costly and risky filming of stunts but in the process
they are losing something that was quite important in our days called
integrity, honesty and sheer acting talent of the actors. In the name of
expediency and profit they have opted to cut corners that the viewers are quick
to figure out these days. You can fool some people some of the time but not all
the people all the time. Believe me when I say that no one likes to be fooled.
So I come back to the subject
of deceit. Why people have become deceitful in trade, in the entertainment
industry, in education and even in their daily social interactions? Why people
say to you what they do not mean at all? When they say How are you- they are not interested in knowing how are you so why
ask? They say that it is a manner of speaking so no one should take it
seriously. But I do. I dislike fake people with their fake smile and fake
handshake. I dislike people who try to fool me with their behavior. I dislike
deceitful people who cannot be trusted. That is why I dislike baby kissing
politicians who are corrupt and steal money once they get elected. They say Trust me but they are the last person
anyone should trust.
An honest man of integrity
does not say Trust me because he does
not need to. He may be poor but his honesty and integrity spreads like a
perfume while a dishonest and deceitful person gives out a bad odor of stench.
I don’t care if the French say that there is good odor and bad odor because there
is no good odor. Odor is what the bad people give out who cheat, lie and are
deceitful. No one trusts them.
I think that this culture of deceit has developed in people who are after quick monetary gains so they are eager to take the most expedient way even if it is wrong. I thoroughly condemn it and hope that you will teach your children how to remain honest even if it means poverty. Do not sell your soul to gain riches that you will lose someday so what will remain of you? Think of that.
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