No Excuses

NOT knowing how to act is no excuse for not knowing how not to act.
In the spirit of Mr. Blackwell, and his dubious honors award the P.A.S.S. will recognize and award (not reward) behavior that is less than exemplary. In fact,, we’ll select behavior we consider despicable.
All of us, at sometime during our lives, have been there. It’s human nature. These awards are not for the average Joe or Josephine, who slips now and then. Instead, PASS will look for and examine consistent “sub-human” behavior.
The mind has the precarious ability to justify anything. Everyone meets people like these.
For them, PASS can be an outlet. Notice how willingly people appear on the talk shows to air their dirty laundry? They too are eligible. The hosts and programmers are better candidates.
But the most serious violators of the human condition have more celebrity, power and control over more lives. This is the stuff of the annual awards.

Drive to make "Human" a verb

People no longer know what to believe or how to act. Too many believe nothing. Belief in nothing, justifies any-and-everything. Just as often, believers in one thing, condemn those who don’t believe as they do. The inmates are, truly, running the asylum.
There is also an epidemic in this country of what I call IME Disease (IMD). IMD is natural self-interest on steroids. It is the complete inability to see from any vantage point other than one’s own. Victims rarely use sentences which do not contain the words ‘I’ or ‘Me.’ People afflicted with IMD cannot conceive or admit that they are ever wrong. They act accordingly. Rudeness runs rampant
As fortunate as I am to be American I have never been free enough. So, you can only imagine the angst with which I have founded an organization that intends to be the behavior watchdog, if not police. It has taken 12 years. As often as you will see our PASS acronym, will be the phrase “Dedicated to the Art of Human Being.”
Human being is our mission. By pointing out—on a grand scale—what doesn’t qualify as acceptable human behavior, maybe we can arrive at some consensus about what does.
Let’s start by admitting that we all, at sometime or the other, have quaified for a PASS award.