The tension is not whether it's shame or no shame. It's what is worthy of shame, what is not. And leadership is the ability to accept accountability, to accept the need for remediation. And we've gotten to the place where because we don't like the things that we get held accountable for, we just decide there's no accounting to be had.
You then have to ask yourself, well, what am I going to do about it? And if I don't do anything, then what does that say about me? What does that say about who I am and my character? If I know these things are wrong, I know people are being killed and I do nothing.
Because if wise people, if good people, if people who try to live and act with virtue, if they don't seek public office, if they don't participate in public life, if they don't vote, if they don't speak out, you know what is happening? They're ceding that floor to the people who are not.
1mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
