But hold up for a minute: who is this “we” that’s always turning up in
critical writing? We is an escape hatch. We is cheap. We is a way of simultaneously sloughing off personal responsibility and taking on the mantle of easy authority. It’s the voice of the middlebrow male critic, the one who truly believes he knows how everyone else should think. We is corrupt. We is make-believe. The real question is this: can I love the art but hate the artist? Can you?
When I say “we,” I mean I. I mean you.
Luther believed that the human will was enslaved, totally unable, apart from grace, to love or serve God. But Erasmus considered this a dangerous doctrine since it threatened to relieve a person of his moral responsibility. What Luther regarded basic to biblical religion, Erasmus dismissed as inhumane.
The differences in the Reformation and the Renaissance lie right there, in the view of humanity. The Reformers preached the original sin of humanity and looked upon the world as fallen and under God’s curse. The Renaissance had a positive estimate of human nature and the universe itself.
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Rebecca Elson, "Antidotes to Fear of Death", A Responsibility to Awe
Absorbing a parent's sorrow is not the Nature-given responsibility of a child. "The reversal of roles between child, or adolescent, and parent, unless very temporary, is almost always not only a sign of pathology in the parent but a cause of it in the child," wrote the great pioneer of attachment research and personality development, the British psychiatrist John Bowlby.
Like other forms of discrimination, adultism is a structural issue. This means it goes deeper than individual action (though individuals still have a responsibility to tackle adultism), with discrimination embedded in social structures, systems, and institutions, and often passed down from generation to generation. However, adultism also occupies a unique space as all adults were once children, and most children will become adults; children generally move from the oppressed class into the oppressing one as they move into adulthood.
“ I explained that the direct responsibility of a leader included getting people to
listen, support, and execute plans. To drive the point home, I told him, “You can’t make people listen to you. Y ou can’t make them execute. That might be a temporary solution for a simple task. But to implement real change, to drive
people to accomplish something truly complex or difficult or dangerous—you
can’t make people do those things. You have to lead them.”
Liderin doğrudan sorumluluğunun, insanları dinletmek, destekletmek ve planları uygulamak olduğunu açıkladım. Konuyu vurgulamak için ona dedim: “İnsanları seni dinlemeye zorlayamazsın. Onları uygulamaya zorlayamazsın. Bu basit bir görev için geçici bir çözüm olabilir. Ama gerçek değişimi uygulamak, insanları gerçekten karmaşık, zor veya tehlikeli bir şeyi başarmaya yönlendirmek için —onları zorlayamazsın. Onlara liderlik etmelisin.”
