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). Alaska followed in 1998. Our oldest myth says that when God asked Adam 'Who is responsible for this?' Adam pointed to Even and said 'The woman gave me the fruit' Eve for her part said 'The serpent made me do it' Most human arguments seem to be about blame at some basic levelThere may also be darker motives at play than simply placing or displacing blame Schadenfreude is a German word for an unfortunately common human emotion - taking joy in the suffering of others 'He is responsible for this It's his fault Now watch him wriggle on the hook' Often times we place blame the way we taunt a caged animal It is common But it is not pretty Another related motive for placing blame is seeking personal gain through attacking others Our politics thrives on the careful management publication moral posturing and response to scandal We have developed a whole vocabulary for this kind of politics and public debate - 'spin' 'the politics of personal destruction' 'Swiftboating' fill-in-the-blank-'gate' (Watergate Filegate Plamegate) Attack and blame politics is fundamentally negative It makes no positive contribution to any good governance It cultivates grievance irresponsibility lawsuits independent prosecutors and voter disgustThe most common responses to the loud bickering finger pointing and blame displacement that surrounds us are fatalism apathy and general moral relativism Fatalism is the attitude that we are powerless to change or affect the world 'It's God's fault or fate's fault or the devil's fault or some faceless conspiracy's fault' Fatalism seems fundamental to conspiracy theories in that some untouchable cabal is actually in control of the government the economy politics or your life Next apathy indifference and absence of motivation respond that 'we don't care who is at fault because it doesn't really matter' Moral relativism asserts that all judgment is hypocrisy 'Everyone is at fault'; 'no one is at fault' It is all the same The result of all of these bland irresponsible positions is that we surrender our agency Someone else is always to blame; no one is responsible; and there's little you can or ought to do about itSurely there is a better wayWhile no one seems to want responsibility the best way to empower ourselves is to take responsibility for the world we live in Now clearly we need to place responsibility where it belongs when parties have broken the law or failed to live up to their contracts covenants commitments and oaths But if we want to change the world we must be willing to respond to the first question by standing up and saying 'I am responsible'So what are you going to do about itWhen we respond that 'I am responsible' we are no longer talking about blame We are striving to make the world a better place We are not taking the blame for things we have not done I have never owned slaves nor perjured myself nor beaten a woman nor dumped toxic waste in the soil I need not take undue blame for racism corruption misogyny or environmental pollution Yet I can respond ethically responsibly and energetically to the mixed world I live in To take responsibility is to move beyond grievance and blame to some kind of positive activism'So what are you going to do about it' This is the question that fourteen year olds ask each other when they get in pushing contests over social status Nevertheless the question applies broadly to the inactive activist as well How are you going to improve the world How are you going to address the problems you claim to care about Yes speaking out is something But what else are you going to do Answering our first question responsibly takes emotional maturity Answering our second question well requires commitment creativity planning organization and a little inspiration However taking responsibility and engaging in a course of activism is also the best way to empower yourself and othersWhat is your stewardship What are you responsible for What do you stand for We are a remarkably wealthy people those of us around the world who use the internet We can move around the world if we choose; we can communicate at the speed of light on a global scale; we can choose our professions our lifestyles our communities our consumption patterns We have so many opportunities so much power and yet we often do not choose to engage responsibly In denying our responsibility we also surrender our power to shape or reshape our world To turn this tide we must each first decide where our stewardship lies Where will we choose to direct our agency to make a differenceThere is no shortage of ideals principles communities causes or movements to devote our time talents and energies toward The universe is big and it is expanding rapidly - both the physical universe and the human universe Therefore we can follow our hearts and minds and pursue our passions There is plenty of room You can't do everything in a lifetime So do the important stuff - to you Then let other people pursue their goals and passions The expanding universe ought to be characterized by free agency free speech increasing diversity and lots of toleration (That's my view anyway) So strive for the best Seek the highest most positive goals No one can tell you what those goals are Look around and you'll see them yourselfThen we turn our talents abilities and resources toward our goals In my limited experience pursuing positive goals for the sake of community and social service or betterment is deeply rewarding Working for good causes has the capacity to accomplish something to make a change to serve peoples' lives It also has some fringe benefits First activism stretches and expands our own abilities We learn and grow far more than those we serve We become more knowledgeable wiser more charitable more aware more engaged more committed We become what we hoped to make for society Gandhi famously said 'You must be the change you want to see in the world' The best way to do that is to honestly pursue some form of service without hypocrisySecond as we reach out to our communities and to wider societies we expand our world and improve the nature and quality of our own social networks Activism engenders cooperation organization and community support By working together we build stronger more durable ties than is possible any other way We build service communities The people I have served together with have in many cases not been people I would have chosen as peers or natural friends But through our mutual dedication we have formed relationships that are truly rewarding and I hope are permanent These communities and relationships then reinforce our own efforts and further empower usFinally in my experience genuine service expands us It gives us access to strength and inspiration and energy beyond ourselves Part of that comes from our personal growth through dedicated effort Part of the additional resources comes from the synergies of our service communities working together Furthermore in my experience there is also something more that consecrates our efforts to do good and makes them powerful in the lives of others You may interpret that as spiritual If that makes you uncomfortable then it can simply be a function of the connections between people that service engenders; or perhaps it is a function of the expanding universe However you interpret it I have experienced the expanding power of service and activism that has enlarged and empowered my own limited efforts for the sake of othersSo activism has the possibility to improve the world It has the very real likelihood of changing you It can enable you to build fulfilling human communities and relationships And you may experience or witness personal empowerment beyond your own abilitiesFor all of these reasons I am glad to see people out pursuing activist goals even when I do not agree with their goals their policies or their world views Please do not get me wrong I am quite devoted to causes of my own I have my own philosophical idealistic and ideological views and commitments But it seems to me that apathy narcissism and fatalism are far worse than misguided activism The world needs more committed passionate engaged people who believe in something who stand for something and who work for it - whatever their politics may be (Of course it goes without saying that this toleration does not apply to those whose activities strive to abuse the natural rights of others)Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen BankThere are innumerable examples of how dedicated people have changed the world in large and small ways Perhaps you will want to tell some of them yourself But for me one of the most inspiring and encouraging stories of the last generation is the work of Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank I will give the briefest outline of his workThirty years ago in the mid 1970s Muhammad Yunus was teaching economics at a rural university in Bangladesh during a time of famine He became deeply troubled by the incongruity between the elegant economic theories he taught his university students in the classroom and the reality of starvation on the street outside So he began a careful and intimate study of poverty in the village nearby He was surprised to learn that many of the very poor people he met were permanently impoverished because they were indebted to usurious moneylenders for just a few dollars Because they had no collateral they could not receive credit at reasonable rates from banks or other institutions These people lived in perpetual debt at high interest to moneylenders over a matter of $50 or lessSo in 1976 Yunus extended his first loans from his own pocket to a number of villagers - $27 Thus he began the Grameen Bank and a revolution called microcredit or micro loans He loaned small amounts of money to local people to enable them to buy just enough capital to begin a tiny business or some kind of cottage industry Conventional wisdom was that these people would not repay the money and they would not use it well But to the contrary the repayment rate is high and the good that these micro loans do in the lives of the poor in incalculableThrough his experience Yunus has become a believer in our human capacity to solve even the most intractable problems "Poor people are not asking for charity; charity is not a solution for poverty" Yunus and the Grameen Bank have benefited the lives of millions of people - not by charity - but by giving them an opportunity to lift themselves by loaning them an average of just $130 dollars and enabling them to buy milk cows or yarn to weave or something to sell at market He has focused in particular on giving loans to women which has had significant positive influence on families and the roles of women in rural Muslim Bangladeshi society According to his official website "As of May 2006 The Grameen Bank has 661 million borrowers 97 percent of whom are women" The repayment rate is nearly 99%Today microcredit is practiced by organizations in nations around the world One man has had almost incalculable economic and social influence for good around the world Muhammad Yunus was the Nobel Peace Prize recipient in 2006If not you whoIn conclusion allow me to suggest some basic principles or questions for considering your activism How can you reach real people and help them How can you join and/or build service communities who will enable and strengthen your efforts How can your efforts stretch you to enable you to become what you hope to make for societyThree questions for the inactive activist 1 - Who is responsible for this I am responsible for this 2 - What are you going to do about it Seek opportunities to help real people to build communities and relationships and to grow and be empowered through service 3 - If not you who It must be you and me It is a basic question.Guards were given free rein in the selection of songs,landscape ideas for a farm pond, with 68% of Americans saying that torture is justified with terrorists. 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