I think, but I cannot say, with any certainty, that at one point people felt that ethics and ethical behavior mattered. I’m sure I sound like a jaded, New Yorker. I am a New Yorker, afterall. But it may very well be that ethical behavior is on a slippery slope collision course with the world.
Here’s a little story. Many moons ago, two people a few years apart each sent a letter to a few powers that be about the behavior by another power-that-be that was unworthy of accolades. At least in their eyes. I know this sounds super abstract. Here’s the deal. The powers that be laughed, shrugged, and noted it wasn’t an issue. They felt that it was ok to not be completely honest. And, so the story goes. Before that, elsewhere a new director was installed overnight replacing a political appointee. She too was a political appointee married into a dynasty. She tried to make a difference. She listened. I was shocked. But while she made a small difference in the small people’s daily work lives, all that happened in the end was that the players got shifted around. The bad apples were allowed to keep doing their thing elsewhere. And, the little people wondered what was the point.
All that led people to wonder what csn it all amount to when you raise a flag, or sound an alarm? Do you start a fire if there’s no will to use or no water in the fire hydrant.
As Ice Cube once noted you better check yourself before you wreck yourself.
Categories: Culture, current events, identity, Leadership, mental health, Pop Culture, Psychology
psychologistmimi 
Smiles considering that small Tribes of our Closest Ape Cousins
Bonobos Live Peacefully Together with only the Innate Instinct
And Intuition of the Empathy of Loving Cooperation that yes
Females Lead in that Matriarchal Ape Society while
Basically the Males play more solo by their selves
As Long as there are no invading tribes to take
Away Subsistence in Living day to day..
Of Course We are Ethical too at core
We have lost our way
in separation from
Nature in
Cultural
Clothes
Ranging from the
First Word of Technology
to Nuclear Bombs as Metaphors
From the Virus of Culture that are
Currently Burning the Lungs of Earth..
it’s not that we are not ethical it’s that we
have lost our way in layers and layers of clothes away
from our Altruistic Empathic Loving Nature Foraging
Together Hand in Hand Dancing And Singing Love as one
Force of
Nature
We
Will
We
Do
when
Us as
AGaPE
Apes oF LoVE
Smiles A key is MaKinG
A Personal World Small Enough
to Still Do that i LiVE iN A Naked
FoResT in Civilization so it works for me..
If we were all still naked of so much technology
and we really needed every hand all hands ‘on deck’
to survive every moment of course we would practice
Ethics of Cooperation or we would not be here at all..
It’s never
too late
to go
back to Love..
But on the other
Hands Fear and Hate
Lives Where Love no Longer Holds Hands..
it’s really hard to do that without Hands but
Sure even technology Will Grow Hands (Words) Green With Love..
It’s worth Noting that ‘YouR Fire Hydrant’ has a Green Top not a Red Top or Blue Top..:)
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Many have indeed lost their way. Sadly and perhaps irreparably
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Yes.. sad it is…
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Great photo and post for this week. 😀 Thanks for playing 😀
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Thanks
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There will always be powerful corrupt rich people at the top. The most we can do is keep holding them accountable. Instead of kowtowing to them for their scraps.
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Accountability can be such a powerful word..if only we all pursued that
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