Comments on: Building the Non-Lie

By: Mark B

Mark B — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:07:26 +0000

Walking your path of life and finding meaning and purpose while make ends meet is challenging indeed, I totally agree. Specially when lots of experiences in Marketing turn out “different than promised or expected” with different outcomes as result. Honesty and integrity are not met and will result in disappointment, frustration and a loss of faith and trust, in business and perhaps life in general also. So building the Non-lie comes from the longing for genuine creation, as I experience it.
What if building the Non-lie in life as well as in business, requires a state of awareness or energy with an intention “to create, serve and contribute” in the widest meaning possible? Like an Art of Living? And what if we are able to interpret these experiences as guides on our path?

By: Laura Slot

Laura Slot — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 19:14:30 +0000

In reply to FlorisV. Most certainly marketing does not equal lying. My observation is that it can be seen as ‘a means to further temporary Non-Truth aims’, a bit abstract but no other way to define.

By: FlorisV

FlorisV — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 13:37:50 +0000

Marketing is not the same as lying. Advertisement can lie with false claims or exaggerate, but primarily marketing is simply about bringing something to your attention as much as possible: exposure. You can make the best and most truthful art ever but nobody will notice it…unless there is an effort to get attention.

Commerce is important as well. If an artist or other “truthmaker” if you will cannot sell whatever authentic product, he’ll need a mundane job and will make less art as he has less time and energy.

The problems are not commerce or marketing, those are merely tools. The problems are government-related institutions entangled with corporate entities that have become too powerful. This problem is reduced if the government stops favoring the large corporations and lowers taxes for smaller enterprises (and thus becomes smaller itself as well). This will lead to a more fair market where innovation can more easily come from the smaller start ups.

Decentralising monetary power is equally important to prevent government induced poverty in general. BitCoin provides this solution. But it’s up to the people to use it.