Perspectives on Human Behavior — Top 3
3 Perspectives To Make You Think Hard
Those who don’t learn from history are bound to repeat it.
There has been growing unrest among some Americans about the Shelter in Place requirements imposed by the government. They claim that it infringes upon their freedom and their civil rights. What these people seem to conveniently forget is that civil rights come with civil responsibility. But then, it makes you wonder if they even know what the word civil means.
Many of the outspoken writers have challenged this behavior as irresponsible, and rightly so. They have eloquently put forth perspectives to shine a light on the lunacy of the whole thing.
In “Lesson From Anne Frank: ‘Holocaust II’ is Neither a Movie Nor Our Reality” Joel Eisenberg talks about the “inconveniences” that Anne Frank and her family had to endure when their civil rights were violated.
Julia E Hubbel takes us back just a few years, to shed a light on what a community is and what civil people do when faced with unexpected calamity. She takes us to Ireland, and talks about the cancellation of St. Patrick’s parade in wake of an unfortunate accident.
And finally, the ever so lovable Helen Cassidy Page takes a stab at the idiocy of the whole thing, reminding them that we’ve been there before and how our forefathers handled it compared to how we are behaving, and what they might be thinking looking at us from another realm. A fun read that only someone with her outlook after eight decades on earth can provide. You don’t want her to be mad at you, buckaroo.
It was only a century ago, a blink of an eye in human history, that we faced a global pandemic, and it lasted a year and a half. We may be in for a long haul, and if this is how we are behaving less than two months into it, we will have a rude awakening in another two months.
May we come to our senses before it is too late.
As always, thank you for reading and responding.
Rasheed Hooda is a published author and a regular contributor to ILLUMINATION, a writers’ community on Medium where writers support each other.
He is a self-proclaimed weirdo who lives a Freedom Lifestyle and writes about related topics — Travel (a top writer), Personal Growth, Freedom, and entrepreneurship. (Get the Newsletter)
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