@feloneouscat has got me thinking about Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures.
They are among my favorite movies of all time. I see a lot of hidden depth in those comedies.
Two Guileless souls, through the power of believing in their dreams, change the world for the better, forever.
It's an incredible and powerful statement.
I've heard it said that "Be Excellent to Each other" is too broad to be of any real meaning or substance. I disagree.
@feloneouscat To be excellent means to present excellence. What is excellence in this regard? What is the excellence that they embodied?
Radical acceptance, loving friendship, kindness, curiosity. To "Be excellent" is to aspire not only to your best self but to encourage others to aspire as well.
To party on means to persist. To not give up on the dawn light that is our dreams. To seek relentlessly the better day and the higher path.
As in everything, Trump is a surface reader (or listener). At BEST he has a child’s understanding of the world—repeats without understanding, he reacts without thought or reflection of the implications.
The depth you are talking about doesn’t occur to him: he wields words as a cudgel to beat down, insults to create FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt), his worldview is one of bullies.
Love, compassion, agreement: these are foreign and thus he has no ability to respond.