Just Don't

And trust others won't

The thing which separates Americans is the sublime ingraining of a moral code. The moral code of DON’T.

Imagine, if you will, the train of virtue signaling. It is super full now, thanks to social media. "I got vaccinated! I support Ukraine! I support abortion! I support sex with animals! I support anything disgusting and evil!” They need more train cars.

Imagine if we were seen as a trust-worthy partner, capable of sharing space, because of what we don’t do?

There are far more of us living that way, giving trust to those who are like us, those who don’t do.

Hillel, a figure in Talmudic thought said:

“That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow man. That is the whole Torah; the rest is explanation. Go and learn.”

So, we should favor moral don’ts over moral dos. America is full of diversity, but we should be able to trust our fellow dwellers that they will not do us harm because we would never do them harm. Until they give us reason to not trust them. Then it is game on.

We have lived far too long with a government that we have given carte blanche to, to dictate our actions and even our thoughts and words. The farther we fall into the Matrix, the more dependent we become on the fact fallacy that the Matrix is benevolent and kind. Because we have trusted it for all these years, how could it be anything else? If we are forced to become unplugged, we slowly awaken to the fact that we have been living in a simulation of ambiguity.

Any morality or righteousness has been systematically and constantly eradicated and deleted from our society. Mr. Smiths parrot “If it feels good, do it! Live YOUR truth, eff what everyone says!”

If the good people all wore buttons or smothered their profiles in flags of moral rightness by the things they didn’t do, it would unbalance the scale and our side would drop, heavily laden by what we don’t do, onto the scales of Justice. BOOM! Because there is so much we don’t do that counts. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” That is not a foreign language to the majority of us. But for the others, those on center stage, doing just the opposite? A tribunal is waiting. Whether it is in this life or the next, Judgement Day is a’comin’.

As we struggle with the unplug, we are in good company. There are so many buttons, T-shirts and bumper stickers we could embrace. We could brag about how many people we have never killed or all the lies we never told. We could brag about all the unconditional love we have dished out or how much quarter we have given when none was deserved. We could wax on about how much stuff we have never stolen or how many honey bees we saved from drowning in our swimming pool.

Conformity does not unite us. Conformity does not make us a great nation. Conformity did not make America the beacon of light for a weary world. Trusting strangers to a higher standard and cheering on individual achievement despite cultural differences or skin color is what being an American is all about. It is about content of character, not the color of skin. The fact that things we do not do absolutely unite us with a moral and ethical thread of a bastion of DON’Ts is what this nation was built upon. It is how we can thrive again as a country. Stop the infighting, circle our wagons and have the back of our moral, ethical and righteous brethren. Enough politics. Enough. Life is NOT political, what we eat should not be political. Politics is the Great Divider. Enough already. If it is evil and you know it is evil, turn your back. Unplug. Just say NO.