Granted.
Civilization collapses within hours as employers, employees, parents, and spouses provide long suppressed, at length honest answers of how it's going to their employees, employers, children, and spouses who asked as usual as an empty platitude.
Alternative
While there is an increase in turbulence amongst relationships at every level to begin with, the end result is nothing much changes. The fact that this was the wish shows that we, as a species, understand the score. Things go on, mostly, as normal, people now have simply shirked the facade. To an outsider it may look like the whole planet suddenly became neurodivergent.
Yeeep.
Autist reporting here, I never have any idea exactly how which specific person wants me to lie to specifically them when they ask me many common questions that I usually just answer truthfully.
"I have 3 nipples bossman, and I fucked your son in the arse and cummed."
"I've underpaid you for 6 years and sexually harassed the receptionist."
I love the implication that the emotional weight of all that was held back is enough to collapse society.
I don't think it would be close. We've chosen to build our entire civilization on intentional lies and deception between one another, and even encouraged to within ourselves, at every level. Lies many of us even roll our eyes at knowing they're lies but just resigned to going through the motions of hearing and speaking.
We are trained to cope, shut up about our problems, and make the owners money while they lie about it trickling down, and if family life or obligations are making that harder, no they're not or you're a lazy piece of shit in this grotesque civilization's eyes.
I still find trust as the underlying mechanism of day to day interactions. My boss can tell me that the embedded machines in the fuel islands need to be updated and when I say I will do it he trusts that it will get done. I will agree that all our higher forms of labor and finances operates on deception tbough. But that gas an abstracted layer above normal day to day conversation and interactions for most people.
Are you a family though? Is how you make money for your boss so well representative of your character as they claim? In almost all cases, and moreso the larger the business, there is a different, expected dialect meant to obfuscate the purely transactional nature of your presence there, increase productivity without commensurate compensation increase, minimize the cruelty of employer's unrealistic expectations and orders, and restrict employee expression of dissatisfaction, expectation, negative affect or emotion.
The shiny, happy stepford language. Some actually come to internalize it as they actually try to play the rigged game, poor bastards.
I'm simply stating that if deception were the core of human communication we eould have never built civilization in the first place. The fact that it is still mostly operating shows that most people still operate on truth as their core communication tenant. Otherwise if I ordered a burger at a restaurant the staff would actually have to deduce I wanted a salad.
Granted.
The sudden change leads to mass chaos but after the dust settles people fall into antisocial behaviours and prefer silence over speaking honestly.
I have, but in that movie the concept of being untruthful was completely unknown to them. I imagined my scenerio as more of a global scale version of Liar Liar.
Granted.
Truth or Dare and, consequently, slumber parties are ruined forever.
Granted.
Humanity is now on the verge of extinction because people starting killing each other after too much honestly
Does this dress make me look fat?
Did you cum?
Am I the best partner you've ever had?
And now something like 80% of American romantic relationships are over.