Why Aren't People Honest?

I started today's blog about being unfaithful, and half way through it I had to stop and delete the whole thing. I was on a rant, and while they can be cathartic, I don't think that they are very interesting to read. Unless of course you are named in it. But after hitting the backspace button for a minute, I came at the topic from another angle. It's still close, but hopefully this way I won't start sermonizing. Why aren't people honest anymore? When did it become okay to lie to someone and not expect to have any consequences for it? Was it back in the day when Slick Willie wanted to parcel out what the meaning of "is" was? Or was it before that? It must have seemed like the normal thing for him to do if he was so comfortable with it that he wanted to give perjury a shot. But I can't really put my finger on when being honest and truthful started taking a backseat to the lying, corrupt dishonesty that is so commonplace now. Any ideas? Me neither. When ever I watch a character in a movie who is obviously lying and about to be caught, I always get uncomfortable. It isn't very entertaining to me to see someone squirming around in their mess of lies. Maybe it's because I can get that any time, it doesn't make any sense to make a special effort to see that. When did honesty become such a rare thing? Why is it that there is a whole industry based on finding out if someone is being honest? It seems that if we have to pay people just to figure out the truth, we have gone badly off course, don't you think? And then there are the people who are caught lying. Have they no shame, what so ever? Have you ever heard Bill Clinton issue an apology for any of the stuff that he has done? Or do you quietly see another settlement figure on the crawl of the twenty four hour news channels? The worst part is when the dishonest person is someone that you had great feeling for, at one time. Watching the person that you cared about, as he wallows in lie after lie can be heartbreaking. Sometimes just hearing his voice as he measures out another of his carefully constructed stories is enough to make you want to put your fingers in your ears and never hear from him again. But that won't work. Your arms would get tired, wouldn't they? But anyway, I am still looking for the answer of when peole stopped being honest. If I get the answer to that, I'll let you know, and you can thank me later.