We're not responsible . . .
Last time I wrote about responsibilities we have, like to speak whenever possible - for example, giving information. I would add that it’s important to learn to speak effectively - for instance, not to get locked in debate or conflict. I’ve learned strategies that I’ve found most effective - like a very short video showing dozen of athletes collapsing. Very graphic. Very powerful. Other people swear by the power of asking questions.
I also consider we have the responsibility to inform ourselves about what is happening, which means finding reliable sources - checking sources, double checking. Lots of ongoing learning.
Clearly I care a lot about being responsible.
But enough of that.
HERE’S A RESPONSIBILITY WE DON’T HAVE: to get others to accept what we say, let alone to get them to act on information we give.
That holds for people who are awake to the dangers of the injections. For instance, everyone I know knows of the many studies establishing the effectiveness of ivermectin. However, many people have not obtained their own supply, either to use as a preventative or to have on hand in case they get one of the many c-virus variants.
One person comes to mind: very aware, very involved - and without his own stock of ivermectin. So when he fell seriously ill, almost certainly with the c-virus, he was calling around frantically. Who had some ivermectin on hand? Luckily some was quickly found, and 2 days later he was feeling fine.
I have “nudged” people - suggested that it made sense for them to get ivermectin.
I don’t do more. It’s not my responsibility.
It’s also not my responsibility to devote all my time to what is going on in the world.
It’s been my passion, more than once.
But it’s not my responsibility.
It is my responsibility to choose whether to respond to things that come my way - not to respond without thinking and lose myself in this, as if I were on a tennis court and had to swing at thousands of balls coming my way - and also not to cut off categorically.
The biggest thing, for me: not to take on what it isn’t mine to take on - not to try to control what others do with information. And even, not to give any energy, any concern, to what others do with information. That’s their choice, their life.
By the way, this has been something very hard for me. A story from Elie Wiesel’s Night comes to mind, about someone who spends months struggling to get back to a village, to warn the inhabitants that they will be rounded up and taken to their deaths. They do not listen.
But what good does it do, if I get locked in trying to drag others to see. Less than zero, very often. There’s much better use I can make of my time and energy.
And now, your turn: What do you believe are your responsibilities? And what, according to you, isn’t your responsibility?
Posted: August 3, 2022