A study by the University of Virginia recently revealed that academics tell more lies than other people. Why? Because of their superior ability to lie. Lying believably requires a great deal of intelligence and capacity for abstract thought, not to mention a healthy doubt for the beatific nature of truthfulness. (Source: Süddeutsche Zeitung 26/27.02.11)
For me, this applies for both huge complex lies and little white lies that keep social life ticking over.
However, this extract got me thinking whether mentally gifted and highly sensitive people are not actually forced to lie more often in our society, or at least not to tell the truth, in order to be understood by others?
Is this not about downsizing your own truth into generally understandable words and thought patterns?
Lying is in this case simply a tool used to make life easier, providing more time for the truly relevant things – an appropriate tool, don't you think?
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