MADMANMIKE
Skilled Investigator
I figured it out the other day talking to a customer.
Over the past sixty years or so, every significant rite of passage into adulthood that actually fosters some maturity and wisdom has been filtered out of everyday life for the average American. What does that leave us with? A government and an economy being run by the equivalent of teenagers trying to get away with whatever they can, and a public more interested in getting their own piece of the pizza (what's a pie anymore anywhay?) than actually fixing the problem.
People are too selfish and this is encourage by the media, which is essentially the little devil on our shoulder urging us to do wrong and see wrong at every turn.
Ironically, being selfish is the worst thing a person can do for themselves. Look at it like this. Everyone has a two wells in their soul (bare with me, it's a metaphor); one is for giving, the other for getting. If you're selfish, you pour all of your give into your own get; this is foolish, as you can never fill your own get full from your own give. Instead, you should give yourself a little bit (we do have to maintain ourselves after all), but then give as much to fill everyone else's "get" as you can. What happens is they reciprocate in turn and you'll find your "get" is overflowing.
-Mike <8]
Over the past sixty years or so, every significant rite of passage into adulthood that actually fosters some maturity and wisdom has been filtered out of everyday life for the average American. What does that leave us with? A government and an economy being run by the equivalent of teenagers trying to get away with whatever they can, and a public more interested in getting their own piece of the pizza (what's a pie anymore anywhay?) than actually fixing the problem.
People are too selfish and this is encourage by the media, which is essentially the little devil on our shoulder urging us to do wrong and see wrong at every turn.
Ironically, being selfish is the worst thing a person can do for themselves. Look at it like this. Everyone has a two wells in their soul (bare with me, it's a metaphor); one is for giving, the other for getting. If you're selfish, you pour all of your give into your own get; this is foolish, as you can never fill your own get full from your own give. Instead, you should give yourself a little bit (we do have to maintain ourselves after all), but then give as much to fill everyone else's "get" as you can. What happens is they reciprocate in turn and you'll find your "get" is overflowing.
-Mike <8]
