I would say dishonesty is a result of honesty that has been attacked and punished.
The
greatest dishonesty I was forced to commit was to believe that my
parents were good and that I was bad, right? Any abuse on their part
was because I provoked them for being honest or for any other reason
they could conceive of. I even had to be dishonest about the fact
that they were very dishonest.
This cascaded down into every
relationship I've ever had, including the last one I was in. Where I
was completely dishonest with myself about what a horribly mean,
unreasonable, destructive, rejecting, abusive and very hurtful person
she was. Her actions never matched her words yet I was inclined to be
dishonest with myself and everyone else that she was not all those
things.
We're told that we have to say our parents are good and
virtuous when in fact they are abusive, dishonest and hypocritical.
We're told that we have to say the fictional character God not only
exists when he most certainly does not but that he is also good when in
fact he is depicted as quite an evil, pestilential, megalomaniacal,
genocidal, murderous, jealous, narcissistic bully.
Finally
we're also told that we have to say the state is good when in fact it
is the opposite, that taxation is not armed robbery when it most
certainly is, that soldiers are virtuous rather than murderous, that
cops are there to "protect us". It is outright dishonesty.
Honesty is punished by parents, politicians and priests from day one.