We all could use a little mercy now.
I know we don't deserve it, but we need it anyhow.
— Mary Gauthier
No surprise here: a Gallup poll shows our esteem for Internet providers has tanked.
“I was once a fortunate man, but at some point fortune abandoned me," the Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius wrote. "But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”
In the relentless pursuit of profits, these companies have turned a modern miracle into the vilest of cesspools.
Lies, vulgarity and stupidity are the rule, rather than the exception.
In a civil war of words, brothers fight brothers; sisters, sisters; husbands, wives.
And everyone goes to pieces.
But there is a way to keep it together: do some good.
“I was once a fortunate man, but at some point fortune abandoned me," the Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius wrote. "But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”
Don't just stand there: do something good. Today. Tomorrow. The next day. And the next.
If you expect the trolls to surrender, don't hold your breath.
If you hope to fix stupid, fuggedaboutit.
Just refuse to be implicated in the lies and the ugliness and do some good.
As the proverb says, "Let not mercy and truth forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart, and so find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man."
