By Mark Azzara
Dear Friend,
Steven Spielberg got it all wrong when he told Harvard University’s graduates this summer, “Your conscience shouts, ‘Here’s what you should do,’ while your intuition whispers, ‘Here’s what you could do.’ Listen to that voice that tells you what you could do. Nothing will define your character more than that.”
Spielberg apparently didn’t look up the definition of “conscience.” I did. According to dictionary.com it’s “the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one’s conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action.” In other words, conscience doesn’t address what you “should” do but what you must do. Intuition then becomes an excuse for avoiding what you must do, which will lead Harvard grads to think he’s encouraging them to put themselves first. What’s new about that? That’s what we tell ourselves all the time, and that’s why our nation is in the mess it’s in.
All God’s blessings – Mark
Steven’s type of thinking is at the root of so much irrational and dead end reasoning. Terrible way of trying to encourage risk taking,my faith leaps and mold breaking actions. Do whatever you are inclined to do is a recipe for disaster.
“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.” -G.K. Chesterton