You come to a fork in the road of your journey and there two individuals standing in the middle of each fork; one of which you know always tells the truth while the other one always tells a lie. You have been given one question to ask in order to ascertain which direction to take. What will be your one question?
Give up?
What road will the other person tell me to take? Regardless of the answer, your choice will be the opposite...
Oftentimes, we solicit and receive advice from people that we think we can trust as well as those that we know we cannot trust and yet, we find ourselves in a quandary as to which direction should we take. This is especially the case, when we rely on the advice of politicians whose sole motivation it seems is to get re-elected.
Was Thomas Jefferson right when he declared that there is a natural aristocracy in the world, not based upon wealth, status, or position but upon God-given intelligence that should be responsible for making the decisions for the rest of us?
Do we know what is right for us:
- some of the time?
- all of the time?
- Most of the time?
- None of the time?
There is a collective unconscious civic disobedience that is prevalent in our society today whose existence is a unexpected or unintended consequence of our affluence. We can observe this behavior in the following mannerisms:
- Not driving the speed limit without law enforcement with eyesight
- not being completely honest when filing one's annual tax return
- illegally copying software from friends or off the internet
What possesses our society not to take responsibility for its actions? And, more importantly, how do we get ourselves and our nation back on track? How do we ask the right questions, knowing that some of us lie and some of tell the truth?
The only answer that I have is: People do not typically Change until the pain of not changing is greater than the pain of changing...
That is why the majority of Americans have lost confidence in our elected officials. The U.S. Congress is a joke.
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