If We Allow Intolerance to Define Us, Our Future is Limited.
By: David Cenicola
Tags: Politics, Economics, Social Media, Culture, Wellness

What if we choose to react instead of accept? It is easier to point fingers than to do the work to love and to forgive others we do not like, or wish to disassociate from ourselves. What if our educational system is now based solely and entirely on instilling absolute entitlement into the hearts and minds of our children, and nobody has to look at themselves honestly? Both of these factors have contributed to our communities having become a breeding ground for giving the devil his share.

How did this happen? If we look back at when media became pseudonymous with crowd-pleasing mentality, looking to make change rather than reporting the facts, and then when they got two big players to jump onto their horses to ride the charge beside our politicians — the legal and psychological professions. That is when their outcries and their influence expanded into every crevice of law and principle.

Both professions may have noble origins, but now the ecstasy of gold rules out any reason. Our values and core principles have suffered and nobody has paid attention.

They only make their money by having us believe we need them in order for our lives to be better. With so many ailments and so much liability out there, so many types of people and ex-offenders trying to move into our neighborhoods, they have crossed the boundaries between seeking mental health and justice, and then simply creating a false ideology that there is always something that might be wrong with you or society itself, and there is definitely somebody out there to blame for it.

They have seduced us by ingratiating the helpfulness of their professions into our psyches. By taking hold of our fears and allowing media to stir the ire of our souls, our need to find a reason to blame someone for each and every one of our dissatisfactions, and then to seek justice in the form of monetary or punitive action against them, has taken over all of our best principles.

Stop and think about something for just a moment:

If they were so good at what they do, shouldn’t life be better for the majority of us by now? After all, lawyers and psychologists, together with reactive media, have had persuasive influence over almost every aspect of our culture, institutions, values, laws, and regulations for more than half of a century. If the overall effect of all of this mental health treatment and neverending litigation was supposed to make us all healthier and provide a much safer society for us to live in, what happened? I must have missed it.

By telling us there are reasons for every one of our complaints about life itself and that others are always to blame, then tempting us to believe we can’t possibly find a way to stand on our own and navigate through life’s complexities — it is just too much for us — they have made themselves the pharaoh. They say, “We are here to meet every single one of your unrealistic needs, because we know what is best (you don’t), we are powerful beyond words, and everybody knows our professions are so noble!”

Taken together, their guidance has become the true major force to influence our culture … well beyond our religious and moral institutions.