Giving it all away...............

 

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity.  But this means we then give away our power to that entity, be it "fate" or "society" or the government or the corporation or our boss.  It is for this reason that Erich Fromm so aptly titled his study of Nazism and authoritarianism Escape from Freedom.  In attempting to avoid the pain of responsibility, millions and even billions daily attempt to escape from freedom.

-M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled