Do you do what you say? Apparently, according to some social media reports I’ve seen, some half million people do. They are the ones who cancelled their Disney vacations, Disney weddings, and Disney+ and Hulu subscriptions. Not so many cancelled their ESPN subscriptions. Football trumps principles. That’s the verb, not the anthropomorphic cheese puff.
Perhaps it was because it was so easy. Boycotting Target had its success but the people more hurt by it were the Target employees who were “downsized” to keep the share holders happy. The outrage against CBS and Paramount never gained actionable speed probably because no one was certain what Paramount does nowadays. Should they maybe not go to a movie? But Disney, everyone knows Disney and not patronizing Disney stuff is easy. And nobody gets hurt. Just a company. No people. The Disney family members are protected bystanders rather than innocent bystanders (see Target sales associates) in such that regardless or how many or how few people travel through the various Disney parks, they still require the same number of people to work. (Think like if a play is performed in from of one dozen people or 120 people, if still takes the full company and crew.) It is truly a matter of the only ones affected are the stockholders, the executives, the rich people at the top of the food chain.
Regardless if you are on the left side or the wrong side is not important here. Those who do what they say to do, or some might phrase it what they threaten to do, have an certain honesty in their lives, a level or respect for their words by turning them into their actions.
A good example of one who does what he says is a non-person, a character, a fictional figure – Atticus Finch.
We wrote about a great lesson Atticus Finch taught his children. His belief that all people deserve to be treated equally? Yes but no. His respect for life? Yes but no. His integrity? Yes but no. We brought all that up in yesterday’s Uplift post, Being Atticus, but his trait we were most taken by was his consistency is doing as he says and how he taught his children to do as he does. Whether you’re a movie fan of To Kill a Mockingbird, or a reading fan, or both, you are familiar with either the line, “I have to be the same in town downtown as at home,” or, “Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets” that calls to mind that what you believe in your heart you should not hesitate to express.
Take some time, click that link and read Being Atticus and then be him. We need more like Atticus and some of them need to be real people.
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The whole idea of our word being our bond is a little outmoded, mostly because it has to do with integrity of character and responsibility. It would also mean we have to think about what we say before we say it–and how often does that happen? Atticus is a great example of consistency, but he’s also human. He doesn’t use that as an excuse. He was still a man of character. Well said, friend.
Such a shame that integrity has gone out of style. There are too many people who really believe live is like the 40 second TicToc post and what you don’t see – the other 23 hours, 59 minutes and 20 second of thee day – doesn’t matter. Fortunately there are other people of character – like you and many of those here – still making themselves examples of how things can be again. Just keep doing as you say.
Thanks for your encouraging words. We need to be able to cheer each other on to the good deeds we can do.
People don’t like being inconvenienced. It is easy to not care about something across the country, world, or to someone else. I’ve a friend in SCa who has really no idea what is going on nationally. She’s too busy in her sphere. Sometimes something touches on her personal world, yet paying her bills and caregiving for her fiance are more important. I get that, but it does make it a lot harder to make a difference.
True. You need the idea of what’s going on to make a difference. Also true is there are many people who don’t know and don’t necessarily care what happens outside their world. They have that right, and as long as they stay inside their world it’s okay. It’s the one’s who have no clear idea yet still want to influence others’ that are truly dangerous.