The Daily Crossroads

Last post I asked how we manage to live ethical lives in a corrupt world. Life is an Odyssey: every day we navigate between the monster Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis and resist the seductive song of the evil Sirens. But today I step back from activist answers like joining Greenpeace or picketing the White House. Today I’m going to talk about awareness, maybe what we used to call “consciousness raising.” The first step to improve any situation (I’m thinking) involves acknowledging current and historic reality. Yes, the world is full of corruption and I’m inextricably entangled in it — I pay taxes for misbegotten wars; I own stock in companies that cheat; I keep a wild tropical bird in a cage in my kitchen. And I wonder if the Chinese Foxconn worker who made my smartphone commited suicide due to the working conditions there. – Continued>>>