INSTITUTING
On the day that he became President, John F. Kennedy made the statement above in his inaugural address. If you wonder why he phrased things as he did, the answer goes to the very nature of democracy and self-government. People who govern themselves, and who do not long for a Great Daddy to take care
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INSTITUTING
“Ask not what your country can do for you,
ask what you can do for your country.”
J.F. Kennedy
On the day that he became President, John F. Kennedy made the statement above in his inaugural address. If you wonder why he phrased things as he did, the answer goes to the very nature of democracy and self-government. People who govern themselves, and who do not long for a Great Daddy to take care of them (a king, a dictator, etc.) have to think in terms of taking responsibility and giving from their values rather than taking. A self-responsible person is not a ‘needy’ person who looks to others to take care of them. They are not victims but victors.
For any democracy including any healthy functioning group or organization, people need to be self-determining, self-responsible, and self-governing. That requires a lot of maturity, development, and self-commitment. The groups who look to a ‘guru’ to protect them, take care of them, tell them what to think and believe, etc.—we call them ‘cults.’ They do not represent a healthy expression of people who are self-actualizing and becoming their best selves.
