Integrity and Doing Good in a "Post Truth" Society

in #society5 years ago

At The White Light Express, our "Mission Statement" for life revolves around the Power of Positive Focused Intention.

Sometimes it can be difficult to keep our chins up in the face of a world that sometimes seems more concerned with manipulations and selfishness than "doing good."

Occasionally, we've even had people tell us that being honest, considerate and having empathy for others puts them at a disadvantage.

Certainly, these are challenges in our modern world!

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Sometimes we must pause and consider from whom — and from where — the voices suggesting we are at a disadvantage are coming. Have we gotten caught up in the hype of "success at any cost," where "success" amounts to little more than the mindless accumulation of material assets, with no thought to the impact such an obsession has on our surroundings?

At it doesn't even mean that we are doing the accumulating, merely that we have started observing — and comparing ourselves to — those engaged thusly.

One of the buzz-phrases bouncing around a lot these days is that we live in a Post Truth Society. Whereas there are lots of interpretations of what that means, the connotations are broadly negative.

More and more people are "normalizing" manipulation, deception, cheating and outright lying as simply being parts of modern life.

It doesn't have to be so!

Consider, for example, how you feel when you come across one of those now rare people who simply always seem to take right action and stand by their personal sense of integrity. We typically admire them, and see them as beacons of light in the otherwise murky soup that has become the world.

Now consider that they were most likely not just born that way, they are choosing to live their lives that way.

But here's the key element: We tend to admire them and seek out their company, even if they don't have fancy cars and mansion-like homes and Rolex watches... because what they offer — and what we feel when we're in their company — is not a material thing.

Today, I invite you to silence those voices of negativity and instead make the choice to be one of those people! That is how we can — one step at a time — help make the world a better place for all of us to live in!

Bright Blessings!


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Yeah, lots of people are bending or trying to break everyone's good thoughts and values/beliefs these days just so they can keep on doing the wrong things.

And then there are some people who believe, "There is no wrong or right." There's only been one time I kind of saw the logic in that statement but it never fully registered. 😂 Must be one of those after meditation or some sleepy/drowzy moments of my life.

I've never heard of the Post Truth Society though until now. I just do the right and moral things as much as I can. And also wherever I see negativity online/offline, I try my best to help turn it positive. It's harder to do in person (IRL). Whew. 😅

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Perhaps the best thing we can do is simply stay true to ourselves... and interpret whatever comes our way in a positive — or at least neutral — light.

It's not always easy because it means taking the "risk" of being different from the crowd.

Bright Blessings!

That's right. Especially these days when you say something against a grp of people you get trolled and hated on. Whew.

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