Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
1 min readMar 22, 2022

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This reminds me of a great essay by Patrick Paul Garlinger, https://medium.com/spiritual-secrets/take-responsibility-for-a-world-you-did-not-create-eafca8d37234 which has as its subtitle: "It’s the spiritually mature approach to the problems we face as a society." Patrick's essay says in part:

"We need a model of responsibility that says that the problem exists because I participate in a system that collectively suffers from this problem — and I am part of that system. It endangers the entire system, and therefore I have an interest in doing what I can to solve it, even if I am not at fault....

Imagine a world where we all contributed to ameliorating some issue because we saw that it was there and impinged on another human being’s capacity at self-realization. Even though my single contribution might be close to meaningless or negligible, I would still make it. On a collective level, we know that the aggregated effects of individual actions are meaningful. The problem is that each individual weighs whether to contribute if no one feels that same sense of obligation."

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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