When lies become the foundation of public life, everyone has to play a role in a bad play. People repeat slogans they do not believe, fill forms with numbers no one trusts, and pretend that yesterday’s failure was a great success. The lie stops being just a fault of the tongue; it becomes a system that rewards obedience and punishes honesty.

But a society cannot thrive on make-believe. Truth is the oxygen of a free people. When leaders demand lies, they choke the nation’s conscience and block real progress. Renewal begins when ordinary people refuse to live by falsehood, speak plainly, and insist that reality—not propaganda—sets the rules.