However we can become conditioned to ignoring truth and the urgency to express it, and we can even lose contact with it altogether and become unable to tell the difference between truth and mendacity.
Who wants a fake Omega watch, for example? I don't even like silver plate. When I first got a computer, I experimented with being somebody else--faked age, circumstances, etc. I soon stopped that. I didn't like what it was doing to me.
I don't like anything fake. I don't like dishonesty. I do not want an inauthentic self. If I don't like something about myself, I want to change that--not fake it.
Mendacity is corrosive. One can reach a point of confusion and dispair at which nothing is true, real, or authentic.
This is one of the worst thing about the Decadence that has suffused Western Civilization and bombards us constantly from the Left--especially the "newsmedia", college professors, celebrities, and politicians:
They scorn truth.
Some do it for purposes of propaganda.
Some naively think they can improve on truth.
Some merely parrot what they have heard elsewhere.
Some are intellectually lazy.
Some are stupid.
Some are naturally mendacious.
But the mendacity and inauthenticity of the Left is the single most dangerous thing in the world today. It has created an enormous subculture of mendacity, inauthenticity, and disregard or downright scorn of truth.
Most of the perpetrators of this have become so accustomed to mendacity as to have lost the ability to recognize truth, falsehood, dishonesty, distortion of truth, lies, deceit, manipulation, and mendacity.
That's why they parrot what other people have said. They no longer know the difference between truth and mendacity.
This is extremely dangerous. If you cannot recognize truth and mendacity, you do not know what is real and what is not, and your chances of making wise decisions are between zilch and zero.
This is why the Western World is in such a mess today: An enormous part of the intelligentsia has lost the ability to differentiate between truth and mendacity, between information and propaganda, and between reality and illusion, and consequently they and their disciples cannot make intelligent decisions.
The exercise of deconstruction is a deliberate and systematic endeavor to undermine the one's ability to seek truth and replace it with what they want. Once such foundation was melted away by corrosive acid of deconstruction, people are malleable to their 'suggestion.'
This is also how some old civilizations end up trapping themselves into social pathology. People in such civilization develops in time many ways of subterfuge to deal with other people. Any social interaction has undercurrent of subterfuge and fakery. It becomes part and parcel of everybody's mind and culture in general. Despite long history of cultural society, it is stuck in festering soup of deception and fakery, unable to pull ahead.