This is Ours
August 1, 2014Seth Godin had an article on Wednesday that really resonated with me. Here’s an interesting excerpt:
The challenge we have in the connection economy, in a world built on ever more shared resources and public digital spaces is that some people persist in acting like it belongs to someone else. When they spit in the pool or troll anonymously, when they spam or break things, it’s as if they’re doing it to someone else, or to the man.
Too often, we accept this vandalism as if it’s a law of nature, like dealing with the termites that will inevitably chew exposed wood on a house’s foundation. It doesn’t have to be this way. Over and over, we see that tribes and communities and organizations are able to teach people that this is ours, that it’s worth taking care of and most of all, that people like us care for things like this.
With all of this individualism in America and the abrasive attitude of every-person-for-themselves, it’s good to be reminded that there are people out there thinking that we’re in this together. That our fates are and will be shared, regardless of what we do. So let’s do the right thing.
