All of this could’ve been prevented with the truth.
I know it’s hard, and we all want to avoid it, but we can’t let such impulses stand in the way, otherwise it means standing in the way of freedom, of rights, of peace, of safety, of health, of rights, of our continued existence on this planet and the existence of our children.
But we’ve stood by and allowed the degradation of truth, submitting ourselves and our society to a diet of falsehoods that have left us bloated on fiction.
A fiction allowed people around us to lie, and cheat, and steal, and remain in power long after they should’ve been removed.
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This mob literally went to DC as if called up to fight a just war against “liberal” aggressors.
They were radicalized by the lies they were fed, the grievances they held, and the hate they were taught to have.
Republican politicians, fearful of losing power, worried that gerrymandering and voter suppression would no longer be enough to maintain minority rule, spread those lies as a way to indoctrinate their base and inoculate themselves against an election loss.
This is 100% true. Adults should know right and wrong. Every terrorist rioter in that crowd should’ve known better, and their actions must have consequences, 1/
but in fairness, they were egged on by people in power, people they trusted to tell them the truth, people who deliberately lied to them in order to attain power and keep it.
This is why we’ve struggled so much with Trump: the President is “supposed” to say certain things, whether right or wrong (objectivity or subjectively); the President’s words carry meaning, and yet nothing Trump has ever said matters at all.
It's also important to understand a manager's role, and in my class I talk about seven things that managers do:
First, the big picture stuff: identifying the artist's goals and vision; developing and implementing strategies based on that, and coaching the artist and helping their decision-making throughout the process.