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Originally Posted by JimOfferman  But you are taking responsibility! By your own admission:
Despite everything, you haven't given up on yourself.
Don't you agree that those little jobs / projects are infinitely more rewarding than handing yourself over to fate and circumstance completely? |
I think you are missing (haha, a pun) the point. Silent Lucidity is taking responsibility but it's still gotten him (or her) nowhere near the life they want for themselves, and the future out look is relatively bleak. Certainly it's better to take whatever responsibility one can, but this only goes on so much. At some point fatigue gets the best of you. Swim against the tide and you WILL drown, but you can't go the other direction for it will carry you out to sea. It's a no win situation. The game is "rigged" against you.
In my mind, the people who tout "personal responsibility" religiously are people who have the game rigged in their favor. They don't understand other perspectives because they have never experienced them. That is why successful people like to tout PR; the game is rigged for them, and taking such a viewpoint appeals to their ego. This isn't to say they don't take some responsibility, but they have an easier time at it than many others. These people need to walk a mile in the shoes of the less fortunate; only then will they realize how limited their perspective is. Sadly, it's these "PR" wing nuts that have success and thus gain influence on society, which lets them spread their pathological religion to the rest of us.