Have you ever seen "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"? You know the classic movie with Liz Taylor when she was so strikingly beautiful. Paul Newman played her drunk husband, Brick.
One of the most memorable characters in the film was Big Daddy played by Burl Ives. Big Daddy had cancer. He was dying. Half the family wanted Big Daddy's inheritance and didn't want to tell Big Daddy the truth about his illness.
The magic scene for me was Brick in a state of inebriation telling Big Daddy the truth about Big Daddy's future short life span. Big Daddy knew in his heart the rest of the family his wife, daughter in law, other son, and grandchildren had been lying to him.
Tennessee Williams using "Big Daddy" introduced the word MENDACITY to American Pop Culture. Why is mendacity important to me today. Should my friends tell me that raw unvarnished truth or sugarcoat it in mendacities.
You know the kind of truth that allows you to step back from your mistakes and find a new way to success. We all have success in us. Let not the mendacity of others derail us. Let my true friends recognize when others pile mendacity upon them.
So do you prefer your life in the sugarcoated prozac nation. Not me! I for one prefer that raw unvarnished pulsating in your face truth.
Till we meet again
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