The world moves along and so do we but it seems that our values are very flawed these days. It turns out that our God is “Money.” Now that may seem callous but it doesn’t seem too far afield. Look at the current political situation in the United States and abroad. We accept a lot of unethical behavior because in some way we are benefiting from it financially…at least for the moment. But ask yourself at what expense. You pay for everything. You pay for what you want and you pay for what you don’t want.
In normal times, people who are criminals are not rewarded either by a book deal or some other obvious form of remuneration. People who are crass and uncaring are not thought to be successful and powerful. But these are strange times. Although recently, I have come to think that the human being may be coming back to life. I see protests and people making objections to hearing speakers who have recently been incarcerated and stolen lots of money from the public.
Maybe all this chaos is bringing about our ability to think on our feet. It is telling us to act and not to rubber stamp bad values. It is telling us that these behaviors should not be rewarded. We don’t have to be a tolerant audience to criminals and other degenerates.
It won’t be soon enough for us to return to some old fashioned values by caring for others. It wouldn’t hurt to put “others first” at least once in a while. We don’t always have to be getting richer and every effort that we make doesn’t have to be dressed around how to get ahead in one form or another.
There may be hope that people are beginning to wake up before we find that we are all slaves to our own bad psychology. Let’s hope so…life is short.