Lying in State?

Yet another positive religious message, this time from Rowan Williams (ex-Archbishop of Canterbury). Williams (who seems straighter than most) says that 'science, art and religion can help us build towards a new concept of humanity in the wake of the pandemic' (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/07/world-fragile-recover-science-art-religion-rowan-williams). Such encouraging messages are presumably part of what senior clerics (of any religion) are supposed to do. It is difficult, however, to feel much optimism about humanity's ability to overcome the 'blows' thrown at it by climate change, the covid pandemic, economics, organised strife between groups etc; etc. It appears that many politicians; media operatives (working for newspapers, TV or electronic platforms); CEOs of major companies and 'celebrities' routinely lie (or, at least, give incomplete/partisan information). This verbal trickiness seems to be regarded as part of their required skill set. If you don't give humanity the unvarnished truth, the required coordination/ urgent carrying out of activities is highly unlikely. There has, of course, never been a 'golden era', when being truthful was paramount. It just seems that, currently, lying effectively seems to be almost admired. People are a lot more blatent about untruths and rarely seem to suffer any consequences after being found out.