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On HypocrisyHypocrisy: A Way Of Life?Most of us lean toward the, "Do as I say, not as I do" form of hypocrisy. We tell our children not to do things we did when we were young. We tell them not to do drugs or smoke pot even though we "experimented" with them back when our blood was much younger. Our intentions are good but we are still hypocrites. It is very difficult not to be at least a small hypocrite because daily life seems to bend us toward small untruths: Does this tie look good with this shirt?; Does this skirt make by butt look bigger?; and other questions that force us to shade our answers to meet the expected ones. While these are minor things, there are the more serious forms of hypocrisy. Preachers and priest that promote certain beliefs but fail to abide by those beliefs in their private lives. It is as if we have split personalities or we are schizophrenic. We seem to separate our private lives from our public jobs. Our jobs are not us but only a way to make a living. So in our jobs we can easily tell people to help the poor, hire minorities, support the unions, and other grand-sounding advice but in our private lives we find ways to avoid doing what we tell others to do. We may rail against American’s "evil" and everything it stands for but use those "evils" for our personal and private benefit. Why are so many of us so schizophrenic or out-right liars: why can we so easily divorce our private lives from our public jobs? Most of us seem to belief that how we live our lives has no bearing on how we perform our jobs. We preach, teach, and espouse one set of public beliefs but live according to another set of private beliefs. This means that we must look to the private person before accepting and following that person’s public statements. If you rail against America and its evils, why are you still here? If you say you love dictators, why aren’t you living under one? If you hate capitalism, why do you use the stock market to improve your wealth? Why do you charge for interviews and for speaking about your public beliefs? Why do you use the very things you claim to hate to ensure your wealth and to increase your income? If you say you support the unions, why are your businesses not unionized? "We all have to make a living," is a very lame excuse and poor reasoning. I believe that most of these dissatisfied people enjoy deceiving their "converts". They enjoy creating discontent and unhappiness while making a good living off of their converts’ misery. It’s hypocritical and schizophrenic - it’s a way to make a living not a way of life. So before you blindly follow that favorite teacher, pastor or politician, research their private lives. If they speak one belief but practice another, perhaps you should look to yourself and become you own leader. Afterword The question is: "Why this stark disconnect in peoples’ private lives and their public jobs?" Why do so many of us say one thing but do another? Has this become so common place as to be expected, unnoticeable and acceptable? Author: Don Miller
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