The power of choice: How so?
It's axiomatic that being free, prosperous, and knowledgeable makes available a wide range of choices between the better and the worse in life. It also follows as night does day that the subjugated, the poor, and the poorly educated have a narrow range of choices available to them; they usually come down to bleak options like living wage, poverty-level wage, or no wage at all; emergency-room care or no care at all; slum housing or no home at all; and degrading welfare until no welfare at all.
The psychologist Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) theorized that there are five human needs starting with the lowest that had to be satisfied first, the physiological need to fill one's belly and to sleep protected under a roof and then on up to self-actualization, the artsy or aesthetic need that is nice to satisfy but not necessary for one's belly or sleeping. He tacked on a sixth one late in his life, the need to attain what he called "self-transcendence." He thought only a tiny fraction of humanity could ever get to this level. A huge fraction in corpocracy
The power of responsibility: How so?
If this last element of power is true, how is it we might ask that the irresponsible corpocracy has the most power in
1. The nature of choice. Wayne Visser, author of The Age of Responsibility says that "Responsibility is the choice (emphasis mine) we make to respond with care." We can choose to be responsible or irresponsible. Passivity in the face of the corpocracy, even though it may have a boot on our face is being irresponsible to our own life equation and insensitive to those of others under the same boot. Being responsible for one's life equation means trying to exercise more control over it despite being under the boot.
2. The nature of responsibility. Responsibility means meeting one's obligations and being accountable for one's actions and their consequences. Meeting obligations enhances reputation and credibility and has a positive, not negative effect on the outcome side of our life equations other considerations being equal. The same goes for accountability. It usually requires us to think through the longer term consequences of actions we are contemplating, and this in turn usually leads to actions with intended, not unintended consequences.
Responsibility, by the way, is one of ten universal ethical values. If most were breeched most of the time everywhere there would be no civilizations anywhere, only jungles. Ethical values that are honored are the glue of honorable civilizations.
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