The suicide of liberty

Chapter 353

“Blaming others is the suicide of liberty.” - Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Resentment blame and injustice rage and anger, all flow freely when you have a victim mentality. And America is rife with a victim mentality. No I take that back, the world is rife with a victim mentality. I see it every much in the former Yugoslavia as I do here in the states, and I can see it in the working class in Asia too. Don’t know about Africa, though I do know quite a few Africans. No this is not only an American thing. Blaming others is a favorite pastime of every people, and color and shade and economic or social status. 

Why? Well its easy and its fun! And it gets you off the hook for being responsible to make the choices you can make. This is not a post suggesting that the ground is level in ANY country or place in the world. There is discrimination and prejudice and unfairness everywhere in the world. I have lived in five countries and visited almost 60 and I can say this very confidently. But each person still has choices and decisions, even if the only choice and decision is how to respond to the lack of choices and decisions.

I need to own what happens to me 100%, especially the bad stuff. This is the only way I can let liberty flourish. Where I understand and accept my contribution to the situation, where I blame no one, but seek a better resolution to what comes my way. Blaming others produces absolutely nothing toward resolving it, and locks you in a psychic prison where you feel more powerless than ever to change things. Stop.