What's Changing? - Responsibility
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July 2019
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Responsibility
What's New? - Responsibility
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On Human Nature
"There are two great forces of human nature......self-interest and caring for others" , according to Bill Gates.
If true, then:
(1) What is the approximate balance between the two today - in individuals, organisations and societies? How much time do we really spend thinking about and then acting on other people's needs?
On Ancestors
What if we could we remember and honour all the dead...yes, the estimated 110 billion or so humans who have ever lived?
On Podcasts
I have listened to and would recommend the following podcasts (2015-2018 recommendations to follow):
2014
On Others
For me the purpose of life is to know other people…is to discover what life is. Who inhabits the world? What is it to be human? What can I give to the world which it doesn’t have…a gift for tolerating my presence in this world..…and unless I know the people, I can’t know what it does not have - Theodore Zeldin
Imagine balancing self-interest and caring for others. If this is possible, then:
(1) What is the approximate balance between the two today - in individuals, organisations and societies? How much time do we really spend thinking about and then acting on other people's needs?
Quote 2877
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction- the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you - JK Rowling, http://harvardmagazine.com/go/jkrowling.html
Quote 2878
You have to take responsibility for everything and everyone - Fyodor Dostoyevsy, The Brothers Karamazov
Quote 2876
The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity - Naomi Klein
Quote 2875
The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds, the effective exercise of a right springing not from the individual who possesses it, but from other men who consider themselves as being under a certain obligation towards him. Recognition of an obligation makes it effectual. An obligation which goes unrecognized by anybody loses none of the full force of its existence. A right which goes unrecognised by anybody is not worth very much - Simone Weil