Last post, we asked our audience: what is the biggest problem in today\u2019s culture? With a plethora of responses, many responded with an answer related to personal responsibility, the ill effects of social media, declining moral\/faith values, over-value of self and own opinions\/wants\/and needs, and some kind of \u201clack\u201d \u2014 especially lack of education, reverence for God, and respect for one another.<\/p>\n
I appreciate, too, the answers that filtered in thereafter, with one of the more poignant responses centering around how our culture treats those with unseen illness, specifically mentioning mental illness. From my limited perspective, there is no \u201cside\u201d that consistently treats those with mental illness or cognitive disability consistently well. Sometimes we as a culture can be quite judgmental of what we do not see\u2026 what we do not know\u2026 what we do not understand.<\/p>\n
That said, we flipped the question for today\u2019s dialogue. What do you think is the biggest positive regarding today’s culture?<\/p>\n
Allow me a couple of acknowledgements prior to sharing the responses. As in our last post, I heard from many \u2014 and I heard from a diverse many\u2026 persons from varied age, stage, ethnicity, circumstance, political leaning, etc. I love that!<\/strong><\/em> \u2026 and I value it deeply. The same was again true. I also witnessed significant overlap within that diversity. I love that, too. Such tells me that we may not be as far apart or polarized as the supposed \u201csides\u201d as some want us to believe we are in order to fulfill their own agenda.<\/p>\n However, I did find persons having a harder time vocalizing their opinion and doing so concisely. I have thus tried to group the responses and overlap, as possible. Here\u2019s what people said: what do you think is the biggest positive regarding today’s culture?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n And there were several who added the following: Hence, a couple concluding notes\u2026<\/p>\n Just as we found when asking about the problems instead of the positives, there was no consistent pointing to a specific person or party. There were not these so-called political divides; the above answers came from persons who lean all over the place politically.<\/p>\n Also, with the exception of the social media responses (which, one will note, showed up as both a positive and a problem),<\/em> as one participant shared, \u201cA good number of the responses relate to problems that aren’t entirely new. It seems that many comment on the universal human condition \u2014 a condition that has existed for many years \u2014 and not solely the decline of American society in 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n That should tell us something. That should stop some of the finger pointing. That should prompt us to increased empathy and forgiveness\u2026 and decreased selfishness and \u201csides.\u201d<\/p>\n There is good in this world.<\/p>\n Respectfully\u2026 Last post, we asked our audience: what is the biggest problem in today\u2019s culture? With a plethora of responses, many responded with an answer related to personal responsibility, the ill effects of social media, declining moral\/faith values, over-value of self and own opinions\/wants\/and needs, and some kind of \u201clack\u201d \u2014 especially lack of education, reverence … <\/p>\n\n
\nThere are still good, kind and humble people in this world!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nAR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"