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In junior high, I woke up to this sound every morning at 5:30. It was always the same routine: wake up, shower, get dressed, blow dry and straighten my dysfunctional hair, put on makeup, eat breakfast, leave. I spent hours making sure I looked good enough so I could fit in. I felt as if I had to look beautiful to be accepted by the people I called my friends. I was a part of the “popular group.” I believed that was who I was. However, no matter how much makeup I put on or how many designer shirts I bought, I was never accepted by my “friends” because I was always pretending to be someone I wasn’t. I have long grown out of this stage; however, the deception that I used when I was in junior high is not uncommon, and almost…show more content… Trump’s whole campaign platform was essentially a lie. A politician that wants to be elected has to run their campaign on a lie because that is what American people want. American people do not want to hear a candidate say, “I’m going to try and make America great again, but doing that will be hard because America is dysfunction.” No, what American people want to hear is, “I will make America great again.” We want to hear this sort of slogan because it’s comforting and pleasant. Even though the majority of Americans know could see the flaws in Trump’s campaign platform, his message was a false hope that people clung onto. Throughout his campaign, Trump also made a multitude of outrageously false claims (too many to list), yet he was still elected the 45th President of the United States of America. Therefore, Trump contributed to the dishonesty of the political system because he was king of creating false hopes. This false hopefulness is destroying our society and culture because people need to have some realistic views on society’s future. Trump’s whole campaign contributes to the idea that the political system is corrupt. Americans benefit from being hopeful; nevertheless, having a realistic view on society is crucial to realizing that not everything is rainbows and…show more content… Nietzsche was not concerned with whether dishonesty was moral or immoral, but he did believe that lying holds everything together as a society. Nietzsche states in his writing, “what they hate is basically not deception itself, but rather the unpleasant, hated consequences of certain sorts of deception” (On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense). This still holds true in American ideals today. For one, Americans have accepted deception. In a way, deception does hold our society together. Nietzsche even went so far to believe that all of language and knowledge was based off of metaphors, and everything that exists is essentially a lie. He realized, however, that language and knowledge are important to society because if we didn’t have these concepts, humans would cease to exist. In a modern sense, if everyone was honest with each other, people would have trouble communicating and cooperating. For example, friendships would suffer because there are thoughts that we think but we should not say. We also use deception in many everyday conversations. This deception is accepted, encouraged, and necessary to maintain the peace in certain social situations. What is wrong with dishonesty and American society is how specific types of lying cause more trouble and harm than others. Like the examples of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, James Frey, and Margaret
