Originally posted by justsomeboreddude
reply to post by NWOhereNOW
Well I do see your point to a degree, but even though I agree with the fact that we are interdependent, I also see a need for personal responsibility
on the things we can control, our perception and reaction to things.
I think that we have a degree of personal control, but I think what I am saying is that control is based upon our previous experiences. In order to
control ourselves, we essentially have to program ourselves in the past perspective, so that we react differently
in the future from the
perspective of the future.
Don't people go to anger management classes so that they can control their anger in the future?
Don't people learn the martial arts so that they can defend themselves in the future?
Don't people go to college so that they can be a/n [insert occupation here] in the future?
I think we are both thinking the same thing here. Personal responsibility doesn't come from the future - it comes from the past and the immediate
present based upon past "programming" or learning.
It is everyone's personal responsibility to... anticipate the "bugs" in their programming, by learning various things to be utilized in the future.
It almost makes me wish that their were government mandated "Self-responsibility" courses which were required to be taken every six months to make
people think about their flaws and what they need to work on, personally.
People are ALWAYS looking to BLAME someone else. BLAME something else. BLAME another. They never want to BLAME THEMSELVES.
Well, I suppose some people blame themselves for EVERYTHING and eventually get depressed, suicidal, or even sociacidal (killing members of society,
like school shootings).. maybe even genocidal. Hitler blamed the Jews for everything. Maybe that was his real problem. Otherwise, he would have been a
great success like Borat!
Conspiracy theorists on the other hand, seem to blame the government for everything. They blame the "sheeple" for everything.
Just who do they think they are? The smartest thing since sliced bread?
Many of them talk about a revolution (killing the government).
You're right, there are many things that we can control - or at least have the perception that we can control them - and we should take
responsibility upon ourselves to be able to control the outcome. In order to do that, we need to prepare ourselves to do it. We need to anticipate our
flaws and our limits and continually learn new things.
Sadly, most people don't even recognize their flaws through their ego. They live a stagnant life, happy with what they are. Happy with what they've
learned. They don't want to be better. They are nothing more than a stagnant puddle of water, happy with itself... with mosquito larvae ready to
hatch... resulting in nothing other than a bunch of blood sucking insects which infest the general population.
