First I owe you with an explanation... if this phrase - 'Potemkin village' - would be strange.
Camouflaged - perhaps, this is the appropriate word to seize the essence.
The story's roots lead straight to Russia, to Czarina Catherine II and her minister, Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin. He invented this grandiose swindle when he ordered to build nice scenery houses along the way, where the Czarina was travelling... and Her Majesty saw a false sight of her nation's richness instead of the truth of poverty.
Yes, dear, this false external picture is called 'Potemkin village'... and you see, the internet allures by perfect possibilities to built our own false 'Potemkin' personality.
Ranks, statuses, well sounding 'stage-names' or titles of nobility on the introducing site?
Then, farther in, pictures of expensive, spectacular things, image of a buyable material reality?
The ostentatious factual evidences of spiritual awakening, exhibitionist facts of faith and love?
Oh, the egos love these frightening formalities.
When the money-controlled material reality takes over the lead, builds a grandiose surface and commands veneration.
The flashy, false mask is snarling efficiently to hide the insides.
Yes, dear, this grim, bloated air-balloon wants to terrify you.
This is the way, as the ego's method works.
No matter where - the material reality's touchable stage is as good, as the virtuality's elusive settings.
The intent manipulates the surroundings.
Let me, dear, to repeat - this is a manipulating intent which wants to force its will on the human beings.
Wants to force you not to think, not to ask, not to doubt - just believe the ready-made, glittering surface.
Are you an appropriate subject?
Are you weak enough to become power-dependent?
Do you feel the required veneration in your scared heart?
No, you don't!
No, dear, you are strong and trust your common sense!
You just smile and remember, how many similarly hypocrite people crossed your life path during the years.
People, who could make a perfect promotion to themselves, who were able to create a complete false personality, just to show a non existent being, instead of their true self. Yes, these people have their own self-justification, of course.
But, there are eternal rules, be sure, nothing may certify the lie.
Yes, there are eternal rules, be sure, sooner or later, but all the lies come to light.
One may lie kindness, wisdom or knowledge, but her/his speech and acts will tell the truth.
You just trust your own common sense, your own eyes and ears, just watch when this well-promoted person begins to act.
Just let the process to unfold and watch the content of her/his written, spoken words.
Just watch the quality of these acts.
The liar gives the game away and reveals itself... and the 'Potemkin village' falls into decay.
Maybe, the costume is bloated dreadfully, but the truth finds its own way to validate itself, always.
"So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit." Matthew 7:17
"A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit."
Thanks to a newly painted façade the whole building looks as if it has been reconstructed although the rest is still in decay.
In politics and economics, a Potemkin village (also Potyomkin village, derived from the Russian: Потёмкинские деревни (Potyomkinskiye derevni) is any construction (literal or figurative) built solely to deceive others into thinking that a situation is better than it really is. The term comes from stories of a fake portable village, built only to impress Empress Catherine II during her journey to Crimea in 1787. While some modern historians claim accounts of this portable village are exaggerated, the original story was that Grigory Potemkin erected the fake portable settlement along the banks of the Dnieper River in order to fool the Russian Empress.
