Universal Lies By Robert Hollander

In society everyone believes in what they are told, especially when told by someone of higher authority. Whether you’re a kid being told things by your parent, a teenager being told things by your teacher, or an adult being told things by your boss, people of all ages believe what they are told as long as the person saying the things sounds like they know what their talking about, and the more you are told these things which are ultimately “universal lies”, the more you start believing these things. We as a people believe these things so much that we just never question them, and for not questioning them, sooner or later we get blinded by these “universal lies” so much they replace the “plural truths”. In the book “Blindness” written by Jose
Throughout our lives we are told to achieve the most you can out of everything, and from what Dante has shown the readers that is a “universal lie”. There are seven terraces that Dante exposes us to and tells us about while going through a journey through each terrace to understand it better. The terrace I was assigned to was terrace number five, which was the deadly sin of Avarice (Greed). The thing we are told growing up is that we must achieve the absolute most that we can and to never settle, and after being told that “universal lie” for so long we get blinded by how others will be affected by our greed, but in Dante’s world that is a “universal lie” because, the “plural truth” that Dante wanted us to see was that your supposed to achieve what you need and never exceed that need because, then you’ll just be taking from other people's
Money to me is a “universal lie” and I say this because growing up money wasn’t always something that my family and I really had, which made me nervous because I’ve always been told that with money you can have everything you’ve ever wanted. The more I experienced life the more I began to realize that that is a “universal lie”, yes money plays a huge part on how one lives their life but it doesn’t always get you what truly matters in life, and that's happiness. After discovering this “universal lie” I felt almost as if I took off a blindfold that has blinded me from achieving what was most important in