I have been tempted for a very long time to establish my own blog. Not for the purpose of sharing a daily diary, my life is too dull for that and besides  I lack the discipline to do it. I have however frequently found my self reflecting on one topic or another and becoming  overwhelmed with the urge to share it with others. I doubt if I have anything so profound to say that it will attract many to read my musings here,  other than a few carefully chosen friends and family members and they may soon grown tired of reading them as well.   What I generally want to share would probably best come under a broadly defined heading: "philosophy." Perhaps a better term would be loosely defined to include, society, moral, religion, politics. mores, norms and relationships. What I have to say is based on my observations, impressions and opinions about all of the above. I hope that others will agree but I am not omnipotent, omniscient and certainly not omnipresent and I expect some will surely take exception to my comments. That will be a good thing since I probably will learn something when that happens.

I hope to write more specifically about things I will only mention in passing here, hoping to tempt others to come back and read the specifics and maybe comment. I have now lived 67 years and have become increasingly more concerned about any number of things taking place in our world today. I am neither an alarmist nor a conspiracy theorist nor do I subscribe to the belief that because I am older I am wiser. But nonetheless I am concerned with such things as the following:

What happened to "LEADERSHIP?" There was a time when a leaders not only accepted responsibility for their actions but also expected to be held accountable for their actions. A time where good leaders took action based on their considered judgment and accepted the consequences. Today it seems that those who are the "leaders" avoid commitment and refuse to take ownership of a problem or its solution. For example our politicians seem only to weasel word their statements to establish "deny-ability" so that no matter how a situation turns out they can say they supported it, if it was popular or they opposed it if it was unpopular.  I know this is not a new thing but it does seem to be extensively more so today than ever before.

What ever happened to "HONESTY?" More importantly what ever happened to "SHAME?" There was a time when dishonest people were ashamed of what they were caught doing. Today it seems that they are almost proud of it and very best barely express regret for being caught let alone having done something dishonest.

Why does seem that those today who takes a principled stand about anything, are the ones who are popularly ridiculed? Why is it that people who are unprincipled seem to get all the adulation and admiration? Again I know this is not a new thing but why is it now practically the only treatment seen?

What happened to honest "PRIDE?" I am not talking about vain pride, I am talking about the kind of pride a person can and should take in a job well done or a product well made, or a promise kept no matter what.

The top of my list of things that I detest is: "Political Correctness" followed by what I call "behaving like SHEEP."
No one seems to accept truths that hurt, nor facts that are unpleasant to know -- so we redefine the parameters so that no one is "offended" as if it were a constitutional right to "not be offended" and the SHEEP all follow along blindly believing they are "making a difference" and "respecting" others feelings. Our western society today is behaving like the crowd that saw the Emperors new Clothes when the Emperor was in fact naked> The only difference is that the first crowd probably knew they were lying, the second crowd seems to believe they are telling the truth or observing the facts.

I have much more I want to say but this has taken me a couple of hours to write and I have other tasks to attend to. But I will expound on some on this in my next post.