An excerpt from The Purpose of Life by Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, circa '60's.
..."The sense of responsibility for doing a job right seems to be declining-
The unwillingness to act and to accept responsibility is a symptom of America's growing self-satisaction with the status quo...
A major reason why so large a majority is smugly docile is that it has accepted the unwritten rules of the game:
Don’t rock the boat as long as you get your cut. Why become worked up over corruption as long as there are enough benefits of the fallout to go around? Once the acceptance of corruption becomes sufficiently widespread, effective exposure seems threatening to too many people and interests. Clamor for closing loopholes declines in direct proportion to the number of people who benefit from loopholes of their own. Freedom of speech seems less important when the majority persuades itself that it so not likely ever to want to speak out to complain.
For the person who strives to excel, to shoulder the responsibility and to speak out, there is an enemy wherever he turns. The enemy is a man who has a total willingness to delegate his worries about the World to officialdom. He assumes that only the people in authority are in a position to know and act. He believes that if vital information essential to the making of public decisions is withheld, it can only be for a good reason…
The enemy is any man whose only concern about the World is that it stay in one piece during his own lifetime… Nothing to him is less important than the shape of things to come or the needs of the next generation.
To struggle against these enemies and against apathy and mediocrity is to find the purpose to life."
We're tied in to some real leaders with Anavex's efforts. Pretty sure Gottlieb, Cder and Janet are OK. If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
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