To the editor:

The time has come for all Americans to ask ourselves how we arrived at this point in our history. We need intellectual honesty to accept personal responsibility, honesty to acknowledge our own faults. We need a screening process about what the media is telling us. They have become outlets for persuasion, instead of an industry reporting the facts. They have lost the ability to remain neutral, they opine instead.

Let’s study the qualities of our forefathers and families that allowed them to survive in this great country and how our country has changed from a nation of “we” into a nation of “me.”

The common theme among all religions is a variation of the “Golden Rule,” which is the ethics of reciprocity that applies to morality, history, religion, business, and humanity. When this rule is violated for the nation of “me” then it starts to destroy trust in all things that are connected in society. When this trust is violated it only accelerates the temptation to cross over into the nation of “me.” When we justify cruelness, spread rumors, mislead on purpose without caring of the consequences, we have become a nation of “me.”

The time is now to start a personal revolution. We need to become aware of our own responsibility to health care, humanity, community, business and spirituality. Exercise, eat healthy, read, pray, volunteer, look for the positive in people. Show kindness, compassion, discipline, and leadership; maybe the media will actually report it.

Joe B. Jones,
Lawrence