Dear Jim,
I've been waiting for someone to comment on your posting and disappointed
no one has. I am always moved by your words, your thoughts--why aren't
others? I think they can't see the power of the ideas. And sometimes I
think the nature of the listserv lulls people into a reliance on the
authors to put the ideas in context for them. Maybe your remarks didn't
hit home for them.
Now all that said, what can we do? You wrote:
>This leaves us with overloaded justice and educational systems which are
>so inundated with cultural matters that they are barely performing their
>primary mission. This also positions us for continued bombardment by
>special interests messages while our children receive very few balancing
>positive values messages. All this is possible because the good people
>abdicated their responsibility as the culture keepers and allowed the
>entrepreneurs, the charlatans and the odious to fill the vacuum.
How do you envision this can be be reversed? Is there a systemic leverage
point you've detected to break the cycle--to take back responsibility for
our ? I've been toying with starting a local campaign, "Honk if You're
Disgusted," to begin pointing out that I do notice when the car in front
of me flicks out a cigarette butt, or that their 4 year old is in the
front seat unrestrained, or the kids in the car up ahead tossed a plastic
beverage cup out the window (ha, ha, they thinks it's funny.) What can we
do on the collective realm in your opinion?
Stay dry!
--Ginger Shafer The Leadership Dimension "Bringing leadership to life!" vshafer@azstarnet.com
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