http://themoderatevoice.com/25606/cheer-up-why-the-recession-is-beautiful-financial-times-deutschland/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:33:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://themoderatevoice.com/25606/cheer-up-why-the-recession-is-beautiful-financial-times-deutschland/comment-page-1/#comment-169234 careyrowland Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:59:37 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/25606/cheer-up-why-the-recession-is-beautiful-financial-times-deutschland/#comment-169234 Mr. Kern:<br> Thank you for the link to Herr Theyssen's article. I appreciate his hopeful observation: "Perhaps this debate in the United States will end with the realization that good and evil don't automatically correlate with origin or religious affiliation." As a moderate American, I would like to affirm his stated principle that "any schadenfreude is definitely misplaced." This acceptance should apply to all people, be they guilt-ridden Germans, cocky Englishman, bullish Americans, nitpicking Chinese bureaucrats, Jewish bankers, Iranian politicians, Palestinian extremists, Israeli soldiers, French Muslims, Mexican laborors, Indian help-line advisors, Iraqi moderates or tech-illiterate citizens of the world who have no clue of what is now happening. <br> In the days ahead, a general tendency will mount up in humankind to resort to "schadenfreude." Some would have us believe that we are all lost on an island called earth somewhere in the universe, clutching at each others' ethnic and national throats, blameshifting and searching for scapegoats. In that complex "accounting" that Herr Theyssen mentioned, we Americans see (as other world citizens do) the lesson that Deutschland's history provides us: When times get tough, people look for someone to blame. And in their distress, humans may be duped into following the amoral opportunist (Nazi or otherwise) who is willing to place that blame irresponsibly. <br> The true moderate, however, understands this principle, which originated in Hebrew scripture, but was later affirmed by the German, Martin Luther: "All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." We need to put the blame on ourselves, collectively and individually.<br> We are all responsible for this mess. That's the true glass half-full perspective: we are, each one of us, responsible for his/her own life. As we are each willing to take responsibility for our decisions and actions, we are also each held accountable to survey the landscape for opportunities to transcend the titanic shipwreck that is still ahead of us. <br> We are all, as another Martin Luther (King) pointed out, "God's children."<br> Carey Rowland, author of <a href="http://www.careyrowland.com" rel="nofollow"> Glass half-Full </a> Mr. Kern:
Thank you for the link to Herr Theyssen's article. I appreciate his hopeful observation: “Perhaps this debate in the United States will end with the realization that good and evil don't automatically correlate with origin or religious affiliation.” As a moderate American, I would like to affirm his stated principle that “any schadenfreude is definitely misplaced.” This acceptance should apply to all people, be they guilt-ridden Germans, cocky Englishman, bullish Americans, nitpicking Chinese bureaucrats, Jewish bankers, Iranian politicians, Palestinian extremists, Israeli soldiers, French Muslims, Mexican laborors, Indian help-line advisors, Iraqi moderates or tech-illiterate citizens of the world who have no clue of what is now happening.
In the days ahead, a general tendency will mount up in humankind to resort to “schadenfreude.” Some would have us believe that we are all lost on an island called earth somewhere in the universe, clutching at each others' ethnic and national throats, blameshifting and searching for scapegoats. In that complex “accounting” that Herr Theyssen mentioned, we Americans see (as other world citizens do) the lesson that Deutschland's history provides us: When times get tough, people look for someone to blame. And in their distress, humans may be duped into following the amoral opportunist (Nazi or otherwise) who is willing to place that blame irresponsibly.
The true moderate, however, understands this principle, which originated in Hebrew scripture, but was later affirmed by the German, Martin Luther: “All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” We need to put the blame on ourselves, collectively and individually.
We are all responsible for this mess. That's the true glass half-full perspective: we are, each one of us, responsible for his/her own life. As we are each willing to take responsibility for our decisions and actions, we are also each held accountable to survey the landscape for opportunities to transcend the titanic shipwreck that is still ahead of us.
We are all, as another Martin Luther (King) pointed out, “God's children.”
Carey Rowland, author of Glass half-Full

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