Looking For the Greater Good
I have had the pleasure of spending time with a handful of age groups while spending one month in Paris. An interesting subject that seemed to pop up fairly regularly is our faltering gravitas of caring for the greater good.
Much of this is centered around the idea of anti-vaccination or protests about continued masking with the introduction of the Omicron variant of Covid, however, it also comes up in simple acts of kindness or lack thereof in everyday life.
To me, this has become glaringly apparent in the news today that shows our politicians find power more important than country, while they grab back the rights given to women and POC over the years and subvert the political process.
We also have multi-billionaires going into space with only a set of NASA wings to show for it. We have employees testifying in congress that their management structures knew that they were creating sites of hate and jealousy. We seem to applaud, and laud the big egos with no moral compass running America’s largest corporations while making more money than is possible to spend in twenty lifetimes on the back of their employees.
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