The Golden Rule

In Karen Armstrong's TED talk, she talked about how the Golden Rule needs to be reapplied back into society. For those of you who don't know the Golden Rule, it's this: Treat others like you would like to be treated, and don't treat others how you wouldn't want to be treated. Karen really didn't use any special means to deliver her TED talk, and it was a little boring, but her message was one that was very good and should be applied everywhere. To me personally, as a Christian, the Golden Rule is something that I try to live by, and I think that everyone should try to live by. This is a concept that has been lost in the midst of the world trying to keep up in technological advances and in wars and other problems in the world. Education-wise, the Golden Rule is a hard concept to really apply, but still should try and be enforced as much as possible. The area where the Golden Rule really needs to be applied is in the real world. People everywhere are trying to get ahead of the game for themselves by any means necessary. This is how society is telling people to work, and everyone is more than willing to follow society in that sense. People need to challenge the system of society and try and go out of their way to make a difference; to treat other people nicely and to help other people out with their problems. The intrinsic motivation of people to go out of their way and help people is still a concept that people are coming to terms with, so it might take a while to sink in, but this is a change that society needs in order to move into a future where creativity and new thinking is the norm.