"Tropical Depression" by Patti Liszkay 0.99 on Amazon Kindle February 1- February 7 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTPN7NYY Thoughts On Elon Musk And Goodness A friend made the following comment on my previous post on Elon Musk (see https://www.ailantha.com/blog/the-paradox-of-elon-musk): Much as I liked the video game quip, for me my friend's remark about Musk's "terrible sense of what actually IS good" hit a cerebral bullseye which got me to pondering that elusive abstraction that we humans call good.
Consider: Doesn't everybody, no matter how mean, unkind, cruel, greedy, self-serving, ungenerous, dishonest, judgmental, money-grubbing or irresponsible they might be; no matter how blind, insensitive, or careless they are regarding the welfare of their fellow human beings; no matter what crimes they may be guilty of, what evil they might have perpetrated, what damage they might have done to another person, a country, or the whole planet; no matter how bad any one of us has been, doesn't every one of us think of ourselves as good? Or trying to be good? Or at least - as my friend diagnosed Elon Musk - desiring to do good? And yet doesn't it seem that it's the truly good people who are hardest on themselves, whose consciences punish them over the least infraction while others bask in self-righteousness in proportion to their lack of goodness? Whoever wrote the Gospels credited Jesus with saying that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God, which has been interpreted, among various interpretations, to mean a state of interior goodness. But if that's true, mustn't it be equally hard for the powerful, acclaimed, or anyone set upon a public pedestal, to hold onto a sense of what actually is good and to hold themselves to it? Which I guess swings back to my friend's observation of Elon Musk, the richest human of us all, whose pedestal rises so tragically high.
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