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Responsibility - ultimately is a privilege

When someone or some institution hands you responsibility, it ultimately - is a gift. It is a privilege - to be responsible for a relationship with others, a relationship with the system, a relationship with nature. It is the very stewardship of that relationship, if given to you - or directed towards you - that is the gift, and should be cherished as such

I am not fully in the picture of your objective or mental model here, so I may be interpreting something the wrong way.

I feel like the language model of "giving" responsibility is flawed and outdated. Saying responsibility is "given" to us creates a subjugation matrix, which leads to unfortunately weird behaviours. E.g. people waiting for somebody else to make the first move.

The language of "giving" resources within power structures fosters compliance, if not victimization cultures, which was the linguistic context within which this language way originally created.

Responsibility, like power is always taken, which has something to do with competence. The consequences of your own actions are not just magically fading away, only because somebody gave more or less of it to you. In that sense I agree, responsibility is a privilege, or rather, a mandate to evolve.

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I am not fully in the picture of your objective or mental model here, so I may be interpreting something the wrong way.

I feel like the language model of "giving" responsibility is flawed and outdated. Saying responsibility is "given" to us creates a subjugation matrix, which leads to unfortunately weird behaviours. E.g. people waiting for somebody else to make the first move.

The language of "giving" resources within power structures fosters compliance, if not victimization cultures, which was the linguistic context within which this language way originally created.

Responsibility, like power is always taken, which has something to do with competence. The consequences of your own actions are not just magically fading away, only because somebody gave more or less of it to you. In that sense I agree, responsibility is a privilege, or rather, a mandate to evolve.

https://powerlaw.systems/memo-w08-feb-2025