During Spring Break, my son and I spent some time catching up on each other’s personal pop cultures and streaming selections of du jour.
“The Good Place is pretty much my favorite show right now,” my 16-year-old son said.
I was familiar with the name of the show and couple of cast members. Huge Kristen Bell fan. #DaxIsAwesome
I finally got around to watching a couple episodes this Memorial Weekend and it’s fantastic. A little bubble-gummy for my usual taste in sit-coms, #AquaTeen, but well written, acted and unique storyline filled with ethics and morals. Something missing in today’s content. More on this in a moment, but for now, The Good Place does a fabulous job of explaining how ESG is supposed to work in a vacuum.
Actually, it might be the best Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Training Video on the market today. It shows how ESG works and how they are training multiple generations to understand a scoring system based on ethics and values.
OK now for a little context, let’s start with the premise of The Good Place according to Wiki
The Good Place is an American fantasy comedy television series created by Michael Schur. The series is centered around an afterlife in which humans are sent to “the Good Place” or “the Bad Place” after death. All humans are assigned a numerical score based on the morality of their conduct in life, and only those with the very highest scores are sent to the Good Place, where they enjoy eternal happiness with their every wish granted, guided by an artificial intelligence named Janet; all others experience an eternity of torture in the Bad Place.
The Good Place received critical acclaim for its originality, writing, acting, setting, and tone. The first season’s twist ending and the show’s exploration and creative use of ethics and philosophy were specifically praised.
The twists, turns and burns really creates a fun ride for the viewer as the cast deconstructs different scenarios of ethics and the unintended consequences our choices bring. It’s kinda a Snowball Effect meets the Butterfly Effect really.
In fact, one of the lead characters is an ethics teacher who is in The Bad Place because his indecisive indecisions throughout his life created unintended consequences for the surrounding people he interacted with.
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