Americans once used this time of year to shake off our collective national tension.
But now?
But those simple truths will never disappear no matter how well they're obscured.
They also form the heart of our collective social contract.
A. Do unto others as you would have done onto you and yours.
The Golden Rule, it is your friend. Your very good, dear friend.
Or should be.
I thought of The Golden Rule a lot as I watched the scene that played out in the Oval Office event.
They faced off against someone who rejects the most basic tenet of morality.
It is a dark and dangerous way of thinking, even privately.
It's when societies send these principles to the sidelines or abandon them outright that things fall apart.
And they always do.
But the lessons it teaches us need not necessarily be learned through study of history.
That might sound strange, but only because we overcomplicate things, always.
Look at Rome at the Fall, or Germany and Nazism The more extreme and excessive, the more dangerous.
Do onto others as you would have done onto you and yours.
There is no time like the present to help start to force the changes required to reclaim the more moral and sustainable approach from our society.
The Golden Rule has survived as a constant b/c it works.
It will always work.
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