On the thrilling and unexpectedly freeing realization that spectacle is hollow and beauty is everywhere. Just watch the Civility Summit recap video and see for yourself!
I felt outrage on Sunday morning and I am fine with that. I think it's in keeping with the idea of civility because that AI video was the very epitome of un-civil. And if I simply shrug it off then I, in the words of one of the leaders of the LDS church I admire, am becoming numb. This is what D. Todd Christofferson--hardly someone who could be said to be uncivil--said about his time working on the Watergate investigation: “The life lesson I took away from that experience [Watergate, for which he was an investigating lawyer under Federal Judge Sirica] was that my hope for avoiding the possibility of a similar catastrophe in my own life lay in never making an exception — always and invariably submitting to the dictates of an ethical conscience. ... A weak conscience, and certainly a numbed conscience, opens the door for ‘Watergates,’ be they large or small, collective or personal." - D. Todd Christofferson, newly appointed to First Presidency of LDS Church
I felt outrage on Sunday morning and I am fine with that. I think it's in keeping with the idea of civility because that AI video was the very epitome of un-civil. And if I simply shrug it off then I, in the words of one of the leaders of the LDS church I admire, am becoming numb. This is what D. Todd Christofferson--hardly someone who could be said to be uncivil--said about his time working on the Watergate investigation: “The life lesson I took away from that experience [Watergate, for which he was an investigating lawyer under Federal Judge Sirica] was that my hope for avoiding the possibility of a similar catastrophe in my own life lay in never making an exception — always and invariably submitting to the dictates of an ethical conscience. ... A weak conscience, and certainly a numbed conscience, opens the door for ‘Watergates,’ be they large or small, collective or personal." - D. Todd Christofferson, newly appointed to First Presidency of LDS Church