The tedium of ‘do as I say, not as I do’, whataboutism and the creation of false narratives
Recent events on the geopolitical global stage have thrown up, in its starkest relief yet, the frightening growth in public displays of hypocrisy and blatant dishonesty being demonstrated by many of the world’s political leaders.
Just to highlight that there is a very long history of publicly displayed hypocrisy/dishonesty of world political leaders. It’s nearly a meme for some of us…
Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Karl Marx, and many, many others have written about it from various perspectives.
The fight really is multigenerational and on that scale improvements have been made. The regression in the last 40 years is disturbing, but hopefully will swing back soon.
They want to make it about money. Let’s make it about people instead.