Our Times: Principles Are for Suckers?

 


We tarot readers don't need to use Survey Monkey to discern what's going on in the culture, as well as in minds and hearts. Our clients come to us with it all.

And during the past 18 months what I have had confided to me during a tarot reading is what I am now reading in the June 2026 edition of Esquire Magazine. Editor at Large Dave Holmes lists "25 Things We Have Learned in the 21st Century." Item number one is:

"Everyone will sell out, and the ones who don't will be considered suckers."

In essence, the message is that no rational human being will cave to principle, at least if they can get away with it.

Of course, clients come for a tarot reading because something is eating at them. Not because everything is happy-clappy. What is eating at them is frequently just that: if they can get away with some snippet or maybe a bigger type of wrongdoing. 

No, they don't ask me what would be the right thing to do. I am neither a member of the clergy nor an expert in ethics. My mission is to communicate to those suffering what I intuitively pick up. That is what I do. 

It's not my role to judge. Not make a values evaluation. Not unless that's requested.

But I can connect the dots on a macro level. 30,000 feet up. Obviously, yes, this time in the history of civilization is not one operating according to an old-fashioned code of character. Remember how David Brooks published a best-seller "The Road to Character" in 2016. It remains a best-seller, ranking 12,207 on Amazon. But in terms of actual behavior the fundamentals don't seem to be sticky. 

Ranging from Bill Gates to Kathy Ruemmler there seems to be a chase after reputation rehabilitation, following a pile-on of bad publicity. From what I have observed from a distance, there doesn't seem to be any deep change in how they approach living a life. Sadly, since they have scrambled to the top of the pile, I guess they are the role models of our times.

With adequate cynicism Holmes puts it this way:

" ... you seek fame first, then money, and maybe, if it's lucrative, you adopt a code of ethics."

Smirk. Not unthinkable would it be for Gates, Ruemmler and more to knock out a memoir about new-found values as a result of the post-Epstein scrutiny.

Careers? So Over. It’s about Earning a Good Living. No matter what.

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