We can see hypocrisy everywhere so there is no letting up in the fun we can have. We'll even find a smidgen in ourselves if we look in the self honesty mirror. So how's that entertainment? It isn't all that entertaining if we are only aware of other people's hypocrisy. So besides entertainment, this also offers a useful tool for self understanding. If 'they' are the 'problem', then all we will feel is anger, frustration, and perhaps even disgust. Entertainment value increases as we come to see 'we' are the 'problem'. I imagine the humor we feel is related to simple physical humor, e.g., like slipping on a banana peel. We realize 'we' are slipping on the peel and humor is the emotional release we feel.

Self righteous hypocrisy (is there any other kind?) is all pervasive. It is rooted in desire - need. But all animals feel desire for what they need to survive, e.g., all animals desire food. Without desire animals would die. If desire drives all animals, why are only the human ones hypocritical? Our big ol' brain! It creates the thought of self - the 'greatest illusion'. Our brain then enables us to rationalize our own self desires as justified, while at the same time judging (rationalizing) other people's selfish desires as unjustified - especially if 'their' selfish ones interfere with 'my' justifiable ones. So what? Why is living a double standard a problem? After all, everybody does it!

Well, like they say, ignorance is bliss. We never really face our own hypocrisy, so we remain ignorant of it. But, does that ignorance really enhance our sense of bliss? Ignorance and a lack of awareness are two peas in a pod. Isn't the cornerstone of life awareness? Without awareness we're dead. So, death is bliss? Well, I suppose it is, at least from a correlations' point of view . (For more on ignorance and bliss see Caring Not To Care .)

For those of us who would rather be more aware - less ignorant, all we need to do is avoid hypocrisy. Avoiding hypocrisy is easy, and makes life more peaceful. Best of all, we don't need to give up our desires either. All we need do is just stop rationalizing them - thinking, judging, blaming and just live and let live. It is as easy as pie; just be self honest. We only need to see that it is 'we', not 'me', or 'I', or 'them'. MMmmm... maybe it isn't as easy as it sounds, eh? Why? Emotions drive our thoughts and how we see life. So, we must not only see it is 'we', we must actually feel it is 'we'. Nuts! There is always a snag.