Please consider the following statements and discuss:

(Participant Cards)

•  A very small percent of the adult population can deprive the many of our ability to establish shared foundations of truth - which would result in more widespread peace. 

• The few of the loudest voices have a disproportionate impact on the many. 

• It doesn’t take many people who become closed-minded to create a national perception that we are a closed minded nation.

• People who lose their battle, and fail to keep the light on, go to a dark place. Here they operate with just as much passion to fulfill a purpose, no matter how negative or destructive.

• The few peddle the harmful lies and propaganda which is consumed by the many, and which keep us divided. 

• We unknowingly contribute to the negative attitudes about government, we get swept away into the negativity funnel without even realizing it. Even jokes - where people know they are crossing the line,come to define our society. 

• Without being more aware of our inclinations to slip into lower gears of thought, which include carelessness, forgetfulness, excessive pride, and arrogance, we slowly begin to resent the duties and obligations of citizenship.

• Slowly, if we are not careful to set higher intentions for ourselves and the good of our community and country, we normalize our worst traits rather than our best.

Quotations to discuss: 

• “Hurt People, Hurt People” Anonymous

• “It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow man … who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from such individuals that all human failures spring.” Alfred Adler 

Resources: 

• Letters To Mikey, Chapters’ 11,12.  How we stand behind Free Speech and a misunderstanding of American Liberty to keep us stuck with a society unable to bond around the type of sustained virtue, and character development, required of a democracy. 

Suggested Activity:

• Play the song  “We The People”, by Kid Rock here. Also find an equally disgraceful and vile song from a known politically progressive liberal entertainer, to balance out the instruction, as Kid Rock is a known political conservative.)  The Kid Rock lyrics tells our President to Go F#@! himself and makes other outrageous comments that play on our most devious and darkest instincts as people.