Why “Golden Rule”?
I’m often asked the question: Why “Golden Rule”? Three-part answer:
a. As a nod to Samuel Milton “Golden Rule” Jones, literature-loving businessman and progressive politician of the early 20th century. He pioneered the 8-hour day, the 40-hour week, paid holidays, and profit-sharing. Then he died and left most of his estate to his employees. A little different than today’s CEO, to say the least.
b. Because, as Samuel Milton put it: “What I want for myself, I want for everyone else.” I started maintaining a list of local literary events just for my own use, and then thought: why not share it?
c. Because, finally, it’s sort of my philosophy for this blog. (What, your blog doesn’t have a philosophy? What platform are you using?) I know, Golden Rule Jones is mostly cheerleading, but there’s also a small but steady portion of criticism mixed in, where deserved. Which is pretty much the way I’d like to be treated too.
[Because many people searching for info on the golden rule mistakenly end up at my blog, I provide the following link as a public service: The Universality of the Golden Rule in World Religions.]
September 2nd, 2009 09:19
Dear Sir
Please forgive me emailing you in such a seemingly cold fashion. I wondered if you might like a mutual link to both my Foreign word site and my English word website or press release details of my ensuing book with Penguin Press on amusing and interesting English vocabulary?
http://www.thewonderofwhiffling.com
with best wishes
Adam Jacot de Boinod
(author of The Meaning of Tingo)
(www.themeaningoftingo.com)