Euphemism, Truth and Diplomacy

Is the world mature? How do we judge it, is there a metric to judge or benchmark the maturity against some thing else ? We do have maturity assessment models in software, quality etc and they are denoted by CMM and ISO models.Guess the world is old enough to start evolving standards to judge the maturity across various dimensions like emotional,mental,physical,spiritual etc. But I guess when things keep changing and there is no absolute benchmark, can there be any meaning behind this excercise ??

Coming back to the original topic, the world does always prefer to hear things
"sugar-coated". That somehow gives me the feeling that the world has not matured enough. Maybe, its a case of always expecting good things to happen and its a sign of a predominantly optimistic spirit that guides most of us in this world. !!

Hence we hear of a person passing away( in reality, he dies), a person is between jobs( in reality, he's jobless).

I guess it would be better to replace optimism with realism in order to avoid heart-burns at any given point of time.

In fact the art of saying things polishedly is a very valued skill and hence gets a lot of respect and admiration around the world. The class of people adept at doing this are called diplomats and enjoy one the most coveted posts in governments.

Read somewhere that a diplomat is one who asks you to " Go to Hell" in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. Indeed a really admirable skill worth cultivating.

Euphemism is a word that denotes the art of saying things in a soft,polished way.

Interesting and strange world...