Revolution 2.0

Introduction The venerable Merriam-Webster dictionary offers the following definition for compassion: “Sympathetic https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consciousness (consciousness) of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it.” By alleviating it, we must–must–mean supplying the needed relief, stabilizing the patient in medical terms, along with helping the person, the patient again in medical terms, through motivation and training, to then live a full and independent life whenever at all possible. Promoting policies that would have any tendency to make people dependent upon either private charity or taxpayer largess is deeply wrong for that person, all the others like them, and all of society. And in the name of compassion, that is exactly what we are doing with increasing frequency and scope. And we are creating an ever-growing disaster.  That is the subject of today’s episode. Continuing Pause for key definitions: Hand-outs. This approach to so-called compassion