#Thoughts and prayers do something series

Social Media and 24/7 news cycles: In that contextual world (which is the one we currently live in), thoughts and prayers is a good way to get your message in front of a bunch of people quickly. Say it, it sounds OK, but you’re really chasing the money and your own future. Thoughts and prayers is the bad thing happening equivalent of that. Often, they’re not - and could give about 0.12 shits about that. At work, that’s why we invented the concept of “employee engagement.” It’s a way for senior leaders - predominantly focused on money - to make it seem like they’re focused on overall well-being and happiness of employees. But you can’t always be out in front of people saying you chase the dollars. People chase the dollars in a capitalism, because you need the dollars to move forward with your own stuff. 10 minutes later, he’s back in his office bellowing at a subordinate over some revenue stream issue.

#Thoughts and prayers do something series

It’s how we structure most office environments in America, too - some target-chasing ass monkey becomes a manager of others and repeatedly throws them under a series of trains while chasing a fatter bonus for him/herself, then gives speeches at all-hands meetings talking about culture, vision, purpose, and mission. It’s really that simple it’s people looking out for No. You need money to stay a politician, and staying a politician keeps you close to the perks of your community and around the business owners of your community. Decision-makers acknowledge shootings - that’s what ‘thoughts and prayers’ is, basically - but can’t actually make decisions or take action, because if/when they do, it hits them in the wallet. Money: This is predominantly tied to money. Here are the two things we should all be realizing about the thoughts and prayers culture, IMHO: What’s the real deal with ‘thoughts and prayers?’ Now, if you’re a politician or someone with theoretical decision-making authority around access to guns, saying ‘thoughts and prayers’ as opposed to diving into action can ring massively hollow. It makes you feel good, connected, and involved. It’s so easy, and it’s your little slice of doing something. Other people you know are doing it, so you go and do it. We need to do something, so we toss something up on social media. So we see something difficult, but it’s hard for us to really do anything - we’re not necessarily Orlando-based EMTs, cops, FBI members, or journalists. Being social beings is basically what makes us human. There are a lot of things we can’t process very easily, or well, but we want to feel connected back to the issue - after all, we are social beings. The range of human emotions really isn’t as wide as we’d like to think. I think this one should be fairly obvious. Where does the ‘thoughts and prayers’ culture come from?

But it’s also super logical from any type of basic human psychology standpoint.

The thoughts and prayers culture that has come up around these events is, of course, total bullshit.

In some nations, it basically never happens. This stuff doesn’t happen 2.25 times/year in other industrialized, first-world nations. Today when Obama makes a statement, it will be the 18th time in his Presidency that he’s had to make a statement following a shooting. I think the Orlando numbers and context are terrible, but … Sandy Hook is probably the worst thing to happen in America in the last five years (in some respects) and basically nothing happened as a result of Sandy Hook - aside from, you know, Peter Lanza speaking to The New Yorker for a long profile. If only 'thoughts and prayers' meant 'change laws to save lives.'Īfter San Bernardino, there was a bit of a backlash on the whole ‘thoughts and prayers’ culture. Of course, this is the real nature of the deal: Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of the tragic Orlando attack and their families I am so sad and heartbroken over the tragedy in #Orlando. Lo and behold, one of the first ones I saw was Billy Ray Cyrus (odd): I woke up and learned a little bit about the Orlando Pulse nightclub shootings, so I decided to do a little check of Twitter for the phrase.