The Two Sets of Rules
12th January 2021
Freeberg nails it.
What we’re seeing play out now is a conflict about how one achieves, not the authority that goes with being President of the United States, but the basic respect that we expect to come our way once we’ve reached full adulthood. And I mean, by that, real adulthood not legal adulthood. True maturity. Two sets of rules.
To people who’ve fully reached adulthood there are two simple rules:
1. I can’t make you respect me. I can only inspire respect by way of my words, my efforts and my achievements.
2. I can also inspire you, in the same way, to disrespect me. It’s your choice how to see me, my choice how to inspire you.To people who haven’t reached adulthood the two rules are much simpler:
1. I get to tell you what to do.
2. You can’t tell me what to do.