It's not that people don't care, it's not that the average person doesn't give a shit about the person next to them, even if you don't know them, it's that we have learned to model behaviour from the people who are supposed to be better than us, from the people who are supposed to lead us.
I was completely dismayed, if I'm honest, to see that Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, as he was leaving office as the president.
I completely understand why he did that, but the message that he sends out after having repeatedly said that he would never use his pardon for his family is so much wrong, so much of a lie, so much of a betrayal of what is right and what is correct.
Joe Biden has the opportunity to support Hunter after he serves his time for the crimes that he absolutely committed.
We see this repeatedly, and then the herd does what it wants because it just models the behaviour of the rest of the herd.
An interesting reflection here is making people redundant to balance the books and businesses.
You might think this is normal and just the thing that gets done, but that's probably because you're not old enough or have read enough to see when it started.
It was Ronald Reagan (Yeah, another American president) who decided in a dispute with the air traffic control workers in the United States in the early 1980s to fire everyone at once and bring in the army.
Reagan systematically destroyed a whole community across the United States, many of whom never recovered, but what he did was model behaviour, the behaviour of removing people's livelihood for his own benefit to win a fight which CEOs of organisations then saw and realised, well, if he can do it in inverted promise any of us can do it.
I absolutely believe that the majority of people are really good most of the time, but then it's up to all of us, isn't it to try to model that type of behaviour even when it feels really difficult, even when we could be doing something less good, but more beneficial to ourselves?
Blog Post Number - 4020
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