I think it would be wise to assume that I have not had a single original thought in my life. That is depressing, yet liberating. Responsibility of my actions would not tie to myself but to the original authors of those ideas that compelled me to act in the world. However, this is wrong. Although everything that I have experienced has influenced me and changed me in ways that I cannot even imagine, responsibility ultimately ties back to me as the individual. Every action or inaction that I take is as a result of my actions. Whether or not this argues in favor of human beings having “free will” is beyond the scope of my current thoughts, but it fundamentally “feels” (under the status of experiencing the human condition that no person can escape as of writing) that responsibility must be tied to the individual regardless of the set of experiences that they have and the attributes arbitrarily assigned to them at birth. Therefore, all one’s thoughts, creative or not, are a product of the individual who remains ultimately responsible.

Now let us take the circumstance that the individual is possessed by an idea, so the person is an ideologue. Does the person claim responsibility of having their ideas or do the ideas claim responsibility for the person’s actions. I believe it would be preposterous to say that the ideas claim responsibility for the person’s actions. The individual remains responsible for the fact that they are possessed by an idea, whether they know it or not. Do not assume that once an individual becomes aware that they are possessed by an idea that they would immediately discard with the idea. The idea may be one of the few if not the only thing that brings them comfort and security.

Ideologues and creative types both produce, but ideologues should be predictable compared to the creative. One spreads a virus, the other creates a virus. Each carrier of a virus might contain a strain that mutates, like an idea becoming mangled through lossy compression, transmission, and decompression. No matter what, the responsibility, by the dictionary definition, belongs to the carriers and spreaders. At every point in the chain, individual responsibility can be attributed to someone.

Take responsibility.

“Author’s Notes” –
This essay started with me talking about myself then I transitioned to generalizing about other people. This fact by itself shows that I am a naive idiot, or simply that I believe I am a valid representative of the average person who has taken a drug that they cannot leave from that compels them to express themselves. I’ll leave a little game for you, reader. From the paragraphs above, find out who I have been influenced by, given that I am not creative and that these ideas are not mine, truly. Good luck and have fun :)

I wrote this because I can disregard the feeling that I am possessed by all of the ideas that I have heard, and I do not know what to make of it. It scares me and invigorates me. It’s fun. Transparency should be sustainable, like Bitcoin is doing in one aspect, but everything feels too new. I do not know what idea might pop into my head the next second, and I do not have total control over my body. It may even be in my best interest to stop pondering about weird things and become a corporate slave where security of life is guaranteed at the cost of my freedom. Though, to be honest, I’ve always enjoyed freedom living in the USA, and cannot imagine a life without it except by reading dystopian novels. It may take me a couple years, or a lifetime, to sort through the endless contradictions of arguments within my head; it seems I’ve got work to do. Anyways, take care reader.