The Encyclopedia
of World Problems
& Human Potential

Living a lie

Visualization of narrower problems

Name(s):

False fronts

Keeping up appearances

Nature

Self-defensive lies can permeate all one does, so that life turns into "living a lie".

Incidence

Professionals involved in collective practices of deceit give up all ordinary assumptions about their own honesty and that of others. Individual who feel obliged to pass as a member of a dominant religious or racial group in order to avoid persecution deny what may be most precious to them. Political beliefs or sexual preference unacceptable to a community compel many to a similar life-long duplicity, denying a central part of their own identity.

Broader

Narrower

Fraudulent impersonation

Escaping reality through popular psychological frameworks

Aggravates

Depersonalization of responsibility ^{[in 7 loops]}

Aggravated by

Persecution

Self-deception

Blaming victims

Defensive life stance

Social disguise of ambiguity

Violation of the rights of sexual minorities

Strategy(ies)

Uncovering false fronts

Using false fronts

Having false friendships

Having true friendships

Living a lie

Value(s)

Fallacy

Lie

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

About the Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

The initial content for the Encyclopedia was seeded from UIA’s Yearbook of International Organizations. UIA’s decades of collected data on the enormous variety of association life provided a broad initial perspective on the myriad problems of humanity. Recognizing that international associations are generally confronting world problems and developing action strategies based on particular values, the initial content was based on the descriptions, aims, titles and profiles of international associations.

About UIA

The Union of International Associations (UIA) is a research institute and documentation centre, based in Brussels. It was established in 1907, by Henri la Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1913), and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.

Non-profit, apolitical, independent, and non-governmental in nature, the UIA has been a pioneer in the research, monitoring and provision of information on international organizations, international associations and their global challenges since 1907.

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