Disempowerment

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Now that the concept of 'personal responsibility' has fallen into disrepair, wouldn't the world be an easier place to live in if everybody lowered their self-estimation, kept quiet and was grateful just for existing?

― dave q, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also, any stories of people deliberately abandoning ALL responsibility and self-determination?

― dave q, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If it would shut up all the people who tell you to wuv yrself for who you are ect ect then DERE GOD YES.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

take me now dave q

― mark s, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also, any stories of people deliberately abandoning ALL responsibility and self-determination?

Haven't there been pig-headed determinists who have ended up retiring to their bed and starving on the grounds that their fate is predetermined. Or maybe those kind of stories are just apocryphal.

― Nick, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Do they even have a bed to retire to? If they've given up responsibility, how are they paying rent?

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought that taking 100% personal responsibility for one's 'failures' was,/i> essentially the same thing as 'keeping quiet' and 'being grateful for existing'. I mean, they're both essential tenets of social Darwinism.
― Kerry, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

fixed it. No more italics for me...

― Kerry, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ned, I was assuming a born-again determinist.

― Nick, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also, any stories of people deliberately abandoning ALL responsibility and self-determination?

My boyfriends

― sweetangel, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

some Zen masters in koans I read

― Maria, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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