Look at this construction anew. It could be “it is a good morning”, or “have a good morning”, or “having a good morning?”, or “we are having a good morning”, as a ritual social reinforcement of a desired outcome.
Goodness is leadership. When Lao Tzu says in the Tao Te Ching that a “good man is the teacher of a bad man, and a bad man a good man’s charge”, he is not advocating moral relativism. Rather, he is indicating that these things exist on a continuum, and there no way to BE a good person, absolutely, and that there is no way to know how much growth is possible. All we can do is look at what is in front of us and compare and contrast.
To be Good is to be capable of happiness, of self arising, encompassing contentment and joy. One might think the person not anxious daily about going out and righting some wrong cannot be good. You have to go to bed and wake up thinking about the children of the Sudan, or little kittens stranded in trees, or the politics of X and what they will do.
There is a time and place for all this, but surely one of the interesting tasks with which we are presented is making our lives enviable enough to be worth imitating? Surely one task of a leader can be to model genuine happiness and contentment, such that other people can learn it for themselves? Do we not want happiness to spread the world over? Would there not be much less evil if everyone knew how to be happy with what they have, particularly if we combine this with effective wealth creation systems like fiat money-free free markets within Republican systems of government?
Me: I want to be clear (can I do a double colon? I don’t know, but I just did): I talk a good fight, and do sometimes feel very deep feelings of contentment, but I am distressingly normal. I sleep in and dream when I had intended to get up and do something. Once on a task I go as hard as anyone, but it’s hard getting me on task often, as my brain is always racing.
You hear this phrase “fit to be tied” for uncontrolled expressions of anger. I was very, very hot about something yesterday. Then I got tired, then I realized that I am quite clever and bold enough to end the problem decisively without butting heads with anyone. This is normally the best solution to most problems, but it was not the first or second that occurred to me. Being really mad is like an emotional spasm: everything locks up, and you can’t move. You really ARE already tied.
These ideas are just out there. I leave my name out of all this to make this effect more pronounced. You can use them, own them, and show me what I was talking about, in an embarrassing role reversal. This is all good.