I have worked for over 40 years… since I was 17…
I have had many, many bosses and different work environments…
I can recall the work environments that I enjoyed and wanted to work in…
they were far and few in between… but on occasion it happened…
so think about either your work environment or home environment
or school environment… and which one’s did you enjoy and want to
come to? which one’s were productive and positive and worth
coming to? and most importantly, why? I would suggest the
the productive and the enjoyable environments were the ones
with positive values, love and hope and charity and equality and justice
and peace…the leaders in those successful environments were the ones
who didn’t follow negative values like hate and anger and lust and greed
they followed positive values, not instinctual values, but positive values …
and this is not just about small, environments like work or school or the
family, but larger environments like institutions and government
and society at large…if our leaders hold to positive values like Obama
did, the society at large is happier and more successful and more engaged
then when the leaders hold negative, instinctual values like hate and anger
and greed and lust… like someone you may have heard of…
and this search for values that drives political theorist
and philosophers and economist and historians…
we must find the values that create a positive and successful environment
so which values do you think create a positive and successful environment?
which values, both individually and collectively, across society, which values
should we hold?
Kropotkin