Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 01/21/19
Why are we here?
Are we here to play games, to engage in tribal warfare, to cheat each other, to argue about immigration, to call others names who don’t conform to our views on climate, to label people as “red” or “blue” or by generation?
Are we here to strictly protect ourselves, to gain status, to engage with and listen to only those with whom we agree?
Most of the issues I hear discussed every day don’t define for me why we’re here. I don’t believe we’re biochemical accidents in some universe we pretend we actually understand.
I think we’re here to help each other, to contribute, to forge community. Yet most of what I read and hear each day seems to represent the opposite: win/lose, my way or the highway, if you don’t agree with me, then you’re stupid.
We’ve made a lot of progress compared to where we used to be, but not nearly enough in terms of what we could be. It’s not all that involute.
I thought it might be a good idea to share these thoughts on the day honoring a guy who said, “I have a dream.”
The meaning of life is life. —Alan Alda
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
—The Golden Rule
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