Will The Common Good finally enter our national/global dialogue?

[haele]

2. Once it stops being cool to be a cynic or a nihilist, then maybe.

But there's still a small loud group of self-absorbed useful idiots hogging the stage with their gleefully nasty prodding that makes the "common good" or the archetypal Golden Rule seem weak or somehow out on the fringes in the mainstream.

You ask most people, and they want to live in a communal system where everyone is respected, and most are willing to pitch-in and share if there's a benefit to everyone when they do so. But most people also don't want to be on the "outs", or stick out in opposition.

So the minority of a-holes can always use that last inclination to set things up for their own advantage. Just have to keep pointing them out as selfish, childish hypocrites, and eventually, people will get tired of the BS.

I'm with you, even though sometimes it's just very tiring thinking that because others are silent, you're the one pulling the load.


Haele