Exaggeration, this process is actually ubiquitous in our society today. Every facets of society and the world is infatuated with this process.
I believe that this is mainly due to the fact that people wants to spice things up, as well as to raise the tension or optimism in the surroundings.
In our daily working environment, you will see people backstabbing each other in the board rooms whenever things start to screw up or are on the verge of collapsing. They are often accused of things that they have never even done. Then again, why do people use this stance against their colleagues? Simple, because they know that they can always rely on the roots of the accusation to support their point.
For example, Person A make an accusation against Person B saying that he did not manage his time properly and has failed to delegate the task effectively to the people. Person B might defend himself by saying that he has delegated the task according to the team player’s expertise and has therefore done a great job in delegation. On hearing that, Person A will try to downplay Person B’s argument by saying that he wasted a lot of time researching and thus leave very little time for the execution of the task. At this point, Person B backoff because he has indeed failed to manage his time properly and there goes his argument for the delegation and he could possibly be castigated by the boss for that even though Person A might be at fault also.
To make the scenario more realistic, let’s take a look at today’s financial crisis. I am sure that you guys are familiar with the optimistic views everyday on the news reporting that the economy is going to improve by the next quarter. However, the fact is, the economy just keeps going down mainly because of declining consumer demands along with the dramatic fall in export demands around the world.
So why exactly are the news reporters and journalist bragging about the recovery of the economy when we are still a mile away from it? Well, once again, it is to encourage the consumers to come out of the shell and start spending. Through this exaggeration process, they hope that the economy will be propelled forward by the possibly rising number of optimists.
They can’t possibly say that the economy is not going to recover any time soon and people have to be wary of their spending because each cents count. If they were to be so blunt to the public, they will scare them off because the ugly truth hurts. Hence, the media tend to blindside the public by hiding the ugly truth away from them by presenting them with a more favourable report.
While it is imperative that they hide these harsh facts away from them in order not to damage the economy any further, it might be worthwhile to be straightforward with the truths even though they are inconceivable or intolerable.
When you hide stuff away from them, they will bring out the child in them where they start to be sceptical about whatever you say because it always comes out with a different ending. Trust is lost and ambiguity arises. Naturally, people start to get on tenterhooks and they panic unnecessarily and this will eventually bring about greater ramifications and repercussions upon our economy.
Perhaps, it is really time to come clean with the public. If you are genuine about it, I am very sure the public will chip in their help to bring the economy out of the sludge because at the end of the day, they are part of the economy as well.
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