“COurear is looking for the truth and speaks it, “Jean Jaurèès, the French Philosopher and Socialist Party Leader, told a group to high school students in 1903. “Do not give the law of clear lie as it passes, and does not complain, our mouth, think that it is fun.”
When the world’s first battle was raised, it was a nonsense, Jaurès refused to give an unexpected fanatic and tried to coordinate with a Franco-German attack of the jungle. In 1914, he paid the efforts of his life when he was shot dead by the French nationalist nationalist twice behind.
The courage among ordinary people is not in the short supply. Doctors and humanitarian workers rushing into camps in the zones and refugees camps to take care of those in need. Rümeeysa Öztürk, the student of PhD that taxkey In the US for expressing an opinion against the uninterrupted bombing of Gaza. Rael Objectors of conscience and increased by Other refused. The protesters of Tbilisi,, Balgera and Istanbul repeatedly facing their governments to try to disobey.
Examples of political courage from those in power? This to feel less. VolandyMr Zelenskyy shows it. French judges also make, if they sustained the rule of law – that in normal times do their office, but in our times it means facing Threats of Death. Papa Francis pushes reforms of the Catholic Church to make it more compassionate and attached, and not from them. He does not “change strategy” when attending failed to take, because he doesn’t have a strategy – he’s simple what’s right.
On the other hand, we have witnessed many ecosy-political ephlo-profile examples in the present months I can only discuss them in broad categories. the Supreme Court Justices in the US Who, last summer, bending back to make a monarchical leader with a disability in violation of the law as it likes. The law firms with offered Hundreds of millions of dollar worth of pro bond work in an administration that is busy with law rule.
CEOs and firms that have hindered the money tap and trapped themselves Cancel Initiatives To plake a president putting their prices in price. A close to confetting Grift level,, Considered corruption and Selling Insider. Congress Republicans who sell the country’s constitutional principles to prevent primaries – or perhaps, as senator Lisa Murkowski placed thisBecause “we all fear … because retaliation is true”.
What is there? Who works with honor? With courage? When do we stop thinking that it would normally consider such questions – and ask things from people to guide us? To ask them, well, lead?
Abandoned with bathing no other choice, Harvard University finally made the Decision to object The Trump Administration river ASKING. That does not give up moral courage in the decision; Other universities may have and make different choices when they are at the same binding. As a result of Harvard’s stand, Hundreds of College Presidents and University Decided that concealing together is better than one’s fall.
But perhaps at this moment, Harvard and other elite schools like this can take the opportunity to reflect on what exactly the qualities they put in their students. For many years, almost half In Harvard’s graduates came directly from campus to consulting roles companies and investment banks. It is depressed but may not be surprising, given according to this newspaper, the red, the past four years are more concerned with “which is good at financial“Than” develop a meaningful philosophy of life “.
If the main metric can be “success” in an object – money, followers, territories, votes – society lost its moral center. In writing Pankaj Mishra in his 2017 book, the age of anger, about the crisis at the moment is that the commercial society without releasing each other or from a more social fabric.
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It can be white, almost conservative, criticizing a breakdown of social engagement with moral life. But I rejected that. Without the ability to think and speak true language behavior, we end up in a place where it is no longer the shame of hypocrisy, no humiliation of heavy greed; Where something is true or false things less than many people believe it. We ended up in a place where the richest man in the world had overseen in a series of Destroying Cutting With Help That does not directly kill hundreds of children and punish millions of death from illness. There is an appropriate word description for that: the word is bad.
Most media – US media, more secure – there is a lot of response for ways they are publicly oriented to the public. Always always, they approach politics at first as a horse race. What does this mean or that for the candidate’s election moments? How’s it playing the polls? Who is, who is exhausted? Who agrees, disagreeing, and what each party talking about another? What the media does not like, because it is more greater than the greater than the most dangerous, if it is suggested if the policies that are moral, honorable, courageous.
A study of telling the truth, the kind that Jaurès exalted, opened many doors. Among them, the ability to move from a political question – what do we want? – In a more courageous: Is this what we are NEED Want?
Alexander Hurst is a columnist in Guardian Europe
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