Accepting Responsibility for Your Own Actions
Responsibility
The Blame Game
We see everybody from politicians to people in the media playing the blame game. The blame game is when we blame other people for our problems. It's not exactly a fine example for us all to live by and yet it makes the evening news because that's what gets ratings.
Whatever You Focus On Expands
When you take the concept of whatever you focus on expands, it's no wonder why we live in such a messed up world. With television being such a big influence in people's lives, why do you think advertisers pay millions to advertise their products in commercials on television?
Television And Helplessness
On television, the recurring theme is always to blame others for your problems. This promotes the feeling of helplessness and the idea that you just have to accept things as they are because you can't change them. This is a big lie and it's the main reason why the world is the way it is.
Accepting Responsibility
Who would have ever thought that you could change your world by accepting responsibility for your own actions? It's more than your own actions, it's also what you choose to think and feel that has an influence as well.
Constant State Of Change
The world around us is in a constant state of change. Things are never the same from one moment to the next.
Television
People don't want to admit that television has the kind of influence on us that it does. Nobody wants to admit that an idea that they saw on television can consume them and overtake their life; ruling their every action.
Negative Programming
The negative programming starts at a young age. You can see the negative programming in The Spongebob cartoon: the characters Spongebob and Patrick are constantly putting each other down. The young kids soak this stuff up and as a result of this negative programming, they put each other down in real life; this leads to fights and all other kinds of chaos as well.
Kids And Cartoons
The reasons why the cartoons are bad is because although our kids may learn the difference between right and wrong in school, school only takes up another 6 or 7 hours of their time. If parents use television as a babysitter, meaning something to keep the kids occupied while they do other things, then this can lead to a bad thing.
Teaches Kids To Take Responsibility
I don't think there's a cartoon out there that teaches kids to take responsibility for their own actions.
Lessons Of Responsibility
When I was a kid, I grew up by watching Sesame Street and Saturday morning cartoons that were a lot tamer compared to the cartoons they have today. Sesame street actually taught lessons of responsibility.
Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Fox News
Today, we have people like Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck in the media on Fox News that promote the idea of inciting violence among the masses. If Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh had their way, we'd be living in a world where we'd get knocked out just for leaving our house in the morning.
Fear
The message from Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck is fear; fear your government, fear your neighbor, fear your fellow human being. Nowhere, in their message to the general public do they promote the idea of taking responsibility for your own actions.
Blaming The Government
Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck are always blaming the government for problems rather than coming up with solutions. It's like a bunch of five year olds that have tv air time and all they do is bitch and moan.
Waste Of Time
Personally, I don't watch Rush Limbaugh or Glen Beck because I think of it as a complete waste of time.
The Morals Of Our Society
I think it's about time that people put some thought into what the television programming that they're creating are teaching people. Sure, it's supposed to entertain and be fun but the morals of our society have gone down the tubes because of it.
Morality In Business And The BP Oil Mess
There is no morality in large business anymore. Just look at the BP oil mess. Sure, their CEO goes on tv and admits that it's a horrible tragedy and says that people will be compensated for their trouble but, in the end, I bet hardly anybody gets paid. If BP oil was to pay off everybody that needed to be financially compensated for this disaster, they would go bankrupt, and I doubt that's something that their shareholders will allow.
Accepting Responsibility For Your Own Actions
Obviously, accepting responsibility for your own actions, needs to become the main focus for many of us. I will be ecstatic when I can tune in to the evening news and see people talking about taking responsibility for their own actions.
Bitching And Moaning
All this bitching and moaning has me tuning out from the world and it makes me not care.
Published by Kurt Evans
I'm a writer. I have a sense of humor; as well as some sarcasm. I live life in my imagination as much as humanly possible. My goal is to motivate and inspire the masses onto greatness through sharing my k... View profile
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28 Comments
Post a CommentYou know it's funny - I kind of assumed that with adulthood came many things - responsibility being #1. Not always so much. It's too bad that there is a need for articles such as this to shed light. But thank you for doing just that. Maybe it'll help open some eyes - one pair at a time. :)
Vicki
We have not had a T.V for over 20 years , however I do not believe people will accept responcibility for their own actions as long as society allows them to blame some one else.
Accepting responsibility requires acceptance of impending consequences. Many will accept the responsibility, but attempt to lessen or negate the consequences. This very subject is the current subject of teaching for my 7 and 8 yr. old boys. Nicely done!
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Wonderfully expressed here, Kurt.
Interesting, although we don't share all the same views. Taking responsibility for ones own actions is a good place to start regardless which side of the fence you're standing on!
Yes, it is so much easier to blame others for our own short comings but much more growth comes out of accepting responsibility.
Well said! I think we're right on the same page! Subscribed to you.
My son has a big problem accepting responsibility for his actions...but he's only 8, and I call him out on it every time! When I see adults acting the same way, it makes me sick.
Great article. I don't watch TV and we raised our kids with no TV. I think it is a terrible influence in peoples' lives.