We are not morally ambitious enough.
We prioritize the promise of receiving good tomorrow over the practice of doing good today.
Many forget what good actually is. Tragically, most people do not even believe it exists, seeing it as problematic from an outdated morality lacking modern scientific rigor and therapeutic innovations. Everything bad is excused away as “trauma,” and everything good can only be good if one can gain status from it, aka “virtue signaling.”
Moreover, with today’s fashionable spiritual bypassing, where people pop in and out of non-ordinary states of consciousness through various psychedelics and culturally appropriated meditative practices, people receive the “insight” that good and evil are ultimately an “illusion.” There really is no morality, just what is, the ever-unfolding oneness of everything. Prematurely receiving such metaphysical downloads without any moral compass perpetuates an ignoble world.
What fools we have become. I am tired of our lack of goodness. My heart desires virtue, and virtue is what is morally excellent. I am not virtuous, far from it. I am just a fool who perhaps foolishly wants to be good in a world that gaslights us into thinking it does not exist. It exists. I will be a stubborn rock, becoming unmovable by any mimicry of good, and aim to be moved only by what is good.
