Who did it?
When a kid breaks a glass, he shirks from the area, knowing he’s done it.
When an adult breaks something, he usually takes ownership (right?)
When someone comes up with an idea, they usually fight tooth and nail - sometimes in court - over the *real owner of this idea.
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Yet when something goes bad, they will do anything to not be blamed.
We don’t want the consequences, so we don’t own up.
But what if the results are far more nuanced. What if after years of being on a computer, your eyes start to have problems. Who did it?
And what if after years of self neglect, you get some sort of dis-ease. Who done it?
The problem with this line of logic, is it assigns ‘percentages’ of blame, similar to the way a judge in a court case about who is responsible for the drunk driver, the patron, or the bar-keep. In the Australian outback, nobody gives a crap who drunk what and drove where. But when there’s real material outcomes, like the drunk driver went through a Lemonade store on the way home in Sydney, who pays for the outcome? Who owns the consequences of the event?
I believe that everybody is 100% responsible. The shop-owner shouldn’t have ever opened up a Lemonade store. The driver should have never drank in excess. And the bar-keep should have never allowed his patron to get so out of hand.
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In a world where blame has real consequences, usually financial, we naturally seek ways out. But this constant running away has real consequences as well. The denial of the concept of your own will power is similarly problematic.
Firstly, if you only own up to the good things happening, and not the bad, you seem dishonest. This creates a state of untrustworthiness, where even the good things you’ve done are put into question. “Well you stole from that guy, so is the money you made really yours?”
Furthermore, you never taking ownership, denies the concept of .. you. If everything simply ‘happens’ around you, then what in God’s name is your purpose. Every creature on the green earth has a purpose, extends his will, and you don’t? Things just ‘happen’ around you? Then you do have a purpose, you are a suck. Or you’re so absolutely lovely, so beautiful, so radiating, you have worshipers, like the Sun…
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Reading recently the Buddhas works. I came to understand the meaning of Karma. It is ownership over the future. That we are the ones in a constant act of creation. Similar to the theories of George Soros, the billionaire, we are important pieces of the equation. To take ourselves completely out of it, is wrong. The system is composed of many pieces, one of which is us.
Your value, or your piece of the puzzle, that led to the outcome, is infinitely small. But so is everything else… The shop-owner, the bar-keep, and the driver, are all infinitely tiny pieces of the entire whole… So how do you possibly compare infinitis? You can’t. 2 infinitis are still infiniti. 3Inf is equal to 2Inf is equal to 1*Inf. Therefore, we are all equally responsible.
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