#gmfgr The Slater Incident
There is a new wrinkle to this #gmfgr movement, the video. We have chosen to sum up our thoughts into a one minute maximum length video. Please enjoy the Slater Incident
This culture of quitting is perplexing. Please don’t misunderstand my sentiment. I want to stick it to the man just as much as the next guy or gal. Slater’s beer soaked ride off into the sunset resonated with much of America’s frustration with their situations. The way that we have accepted Slater as hero of the common man is proof that our social consciousness has devolved into a reality TV syndrome. While the tirade of Slater should be the brain child of the writers at SNL, these shenanigans are played out in real life for the army of talking heads to tell us that this is acceptable. What happened to respect of self? Where did the notion of lacing up your boots and giving an honest days work go? Since when do we expect that each and every aspect of our lives should be pleasant and pleasing to us? You see our misguided egos have inflated to the point that we have lost community. The status update culture is rearing its ugly head.
1. Two wrongs don’t make a right
By creating a right out of two wrongs, you have in fact created a genetically mutated version of what society says is ethically is accepted. The passenger that instigated the “take two beers and jump” moment, along with Slater are not the problem itself, but a symptom of an entitled culture.
2. Everybody is bearing a cross
Whether your problems revolve around money, or the emotional strife that Dad won’t accept your decision to pursue hand modeling, we all have issues that we deal with. In the rule book of life I have yet to find the section that provides the basis to be rude or inconsiderate to another individual based on the demons that I struggle with.
3. If Slater is a hero, then we are in big trouble
To call someone who was no better than the slimy passenger that ignited the “take two beers and jump” moment a hero, sets the bar pretty low for what we aspire to be. It saddens me that legions of weaklings that are emboldened by a petty outburst, yet we turn a blind eye and find bad things to say about moguls that gave up business in pursuit of purpose.
4. Integrity is lost in translation
A striking workforce is a group that has made a collective decision to band together and respectfully decline to work. A rogue employee that has bottled up anger and frustration and allows his wrath be unleashed upon the unsuspecting public is not respectful but quite the opposite.
5. Quitting is never good
If George Washington and his men would have listened to their inner Slater during the winter of 1776 while crossing the Delaware to show the Hessians what a good old fashioned American ass kicking feels like, who is to say that we wouldn’t be watching Soccer and driving on the wrong side of the road? Slater’s beer soaked slide off into the sunset is a polarization of the core issue behind our great and storied nation’s plunge on the social barometer, absence of hustle.
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