"In our relentless pursuit of success, efficiency, and optimization, have we forgotten that the most profound human achievement isn’t what we accomplish, but how we treat each other along the way?"
There is a lot of meat in this article. Very good. The murder of this young women has affected me owing to basic humanity to assist. At law- at least in my country- the other passengers were potentially liable for failure to provide necessaries for life.
Dan Aierly I think was good - in Honestly Dishonest - on the corporate aspect. There is an ethical corrollary. It is not on your empathy/pyschology point per se but I think it is related. It might go to Bandura's self efficacy thesis.
I noticed with certain provicial lawyers in the town I once worked in that those in 3+ partner firms that had incorporated that these had greater internal loyalty and side lined normative professional ethics. They could also sideline evidential and forensic norms. Not acting ethically whereas others are is a form of behavioual psychopathy.
Well done. Something I’ve been ruminating on and discussing for some time. You’ve captured it coherently and convincingly. And thrown in your “special sauce” for flair. Admirable.
“Or, I don’t know, maybe make some freaking waffles instead of letting the TV raise them while you doomscroll TikTok. “. When my kids were young, we fasted from TV during Lent. Instead we taught them traditional skills, played board games, told stories, played music and read for 40 days. Amazing how there personalities would changed with an extended electronics fast.
“We’re seeing parents who treat their children as brands to be marketed, achievements to be maximized, rather than human beings to be nurtured.” We see the results of this on college campuses. Kids that have no resiliency because they’ve never been loved for who they are rather than what they accomplish. They put themselves under constant pressure to collect all baubles that will make mom and dad proud. As a result, universities spend on large student affairs staff whose job is to clean up the mental health issues and anxiety that come from being a marionette.
Adding to this, perhaps we could also extend their stay in school for another year, thereby eliminating the need for "college parents’ evenings" for freshmen. You don't have to start going to college at 18 to "understand the world" before you've even remotely been able to understand yourself.
Having worked in higher ed for a decade, I genuinely believe 50-60 percent of kids would benefit from a gap year. A year to work some and explore interests. This might reduce the high number of major changes that extend time in college and increase the cost of attendance (and student loan debt). Universities wouldn’t like this, but I believe it would result in shorter time to degree for many students.
We do have a kind of internal at-war psychology developing across the developed world. That isn't clear, though, b/c in a healthy in-form society the at-war psyche usually results in more empathy, a greater willingness to identify with & help others in the home society. What we're currently experiencing is a declining civilization's accelerated loss of empathy, & the accelerant is an implied state of war. This doubtless happened in the Roman world in the 2nd century AD. Europe is very publicly making noises about militarizing, which shows its decline momentum is worsening.
This example, to me, shows how the zeitgeist of our times fits this biblical description of the end times:
"Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of many will grow cold."
I think we see that happening throughout this nation now that Trump has given tacit permission to the most violent people, who were formerly sidelined by all leaders, to come out of the woodwork and even bask in the oddly orange limelight of the Great Pumpkin.
Each side demonizes the other, each blaming the other for the accelerating decline. Trump's original one-way 'tariffs', then his absurdist 'sanctions', then asinine tariff 'accelerants', his calling off negotiations a few days after resuming them. It's all theatre of the absurd. MOST US trading partners likely have plans in place how to severely decrease 'exposure' to the unreliable, untrustworthy, contract-breaking U S of A. Seriously, most nations now have that as a major macroeconomic goal - reduce then terminate trade relations with unreliable trading partners. India's confident, ethical response to US demands will become the norm, NOT the weak, vacillating, sleazy compliance of Merz's Germany or Starmer's Britain. Hopefully Canada will continue working towards reducing its trade relations with the US to below 15% of GNP.
"In our relentless pursuit of success, efficiency, and optimization, have we forgotten that the most profound human achievement isn’t what we accomplish, but how we treat each other along the way?"
I could not agree more.
There is a lot of meat in this article. Very good. The murder of this young women has affected me owing to basic humanity to assist. At law- at least in my country- the other passengers were potentially liable for failure to provide necessaries for life.
Dan Aierly I think was good - in Honestly Dishonest - on the corporate aspect. There is an ethical corrollary. It is not on your empathy/pyschology point per se but I think it is related. It might go to Bandura's self efficacy thesis.
I noticed with certain provicial lawyers in the town I once worked in that those in 3+ partner firms that had incorporated that these had greater internal loyalty and side lined normative professional ethics. They could also sideline evidential and forensic norms. Not acting ethically whereas others are is a form of behavioual psychopathy.
Absolutely. Life has become a descencitized[??] anomaly.
Welcome to the manufactured lifestyle. Compliments of the new world order.
Work to live - live to work.
And fuck it - stab a bitch and call it a day.
Perhaps necessary, your urgency fits the subject. You have a skill for adapting style to subject.
Absolutely fantastic Lily. So glad I subscribed.
Damn Lily, you killed it with this one. Thank you!
Well done. Something I’ve been ruminating on and discussing for some time. You’ve captured it coherently and convincingly. And thrown in your “special sauce” for flair. Admirable.
“Or, I don’t know, maybe make some freaking waffles instead of letting the TV raise them while you doomscroll TikTok. “. When my kids were young, we fasted from TV during Lent. Instead we taught them traditional skills, played board games, told stories, played music and read for 40 days. Amazing how there personalities would changed with an extended electronics fast.
“We’re seeing parents who treat their children as brands to be marketed, achievements to be maximized, rather than human beings to be nurtured.” We see the results of this on college campuses. Kids that have no resiliency because they’ve never been loved for who they are rather than what they accomplish. They put themselves under constant pressure to collect all baubles that will make mom and dad proud. As a result, universities spend on large student affairs staff whose job is to clean up the mental health issues and anxiety that come from being a marionette.
Adding to this, perhaps we could also extend their stay in school for another year, thereby eliminating the need for "college parents’ evenings" for freshmen. You don't have to start going to college at 18 to "understand the world" before you've even remotely been able to understand yourself.
Having worked in higher ed for a decade, I genuinely believe 50-60 percent of kids would benefit from a gap year. A year to work some and explore interests. This might reduce the high number of major changes that extend time in college and increase the cost of attendance (and student loan debt). Universities wouldn’t like this, but I believe it would result in shorter time to degree for many students.
We do have a kind of internal at-war psychology developing across the developed world. That isn't clear, though, b/c in a healthy in-form society the at-war psyche usually results in more empathy, a greater willingness to identify with & help others in the home society. What we're currently experiencing is a declining civilization's accelerated loss of empathy, & the accelerant is an implied state of war. This doubtless happened in the Roman world in the 2nd century AD. Europe is very publicly making noises about militarizing, which shows its decline momentum is worsening.
I was similarly affected by seeing the lack of empathy among ALL the passengers and also felt it was representative of our times: https://www.thedailydoom.com/p/make-america-safe-again?utm_source=publication-search
This example, to me, shows how the zeitgeist of our times fits this biblical description of the end times:
"Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of many will grow cold."
I think we see that happening throughout this nation now that Trump has given tacit permission to the most violent people, who were formerly sidelined by all leaders, to come out of the woodwork and even bask in the oddly orange limelight of the Great Pumpkin.
Each side demonizes the other, each blaming the other for the accelerating decline. Trump's original one-way 'tariffs', then his absurdist 'sanctions', then asinine tariff 'accelerants', his calling off negotiations a few days after resuming them. It's all theatre of the absurd. MOST US trading partners likely have plans in place how to severely decrease 'exposure' to the unreliable, untrustworthy, contract-breaking U S of A. Seriously, most nations now have that as a major macroeconomic goal - reduce then terminate trade relations with unreliable trading partners. India's confident, ethical response to US demands will become the norm, NOT the weak, vacillating, sleazy compliance of Merz's Germany or Starmer's Britain. Hopefully Canada will continue working towards reducing its trade relations with the US to below 15% of GNP.
Thanks Lily. Your concluding statement says it all👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟