To Obey or Not to Obey
That is the question
Obeyance starts in the roots of family, then school, church, then work. Sometimes it’s the best course of action to follow the rules. As adults in our places of work there are protocols for safety, behavioral ethics about how to get along with one another, and often last, the moral compass. Take a listen to the following clip:
https://duanne.substack.com/p/speaking-up
My moral compass shifted when I decided to speak my truth at the table.
That was years ago. Today my compass is buzzing as I contemplate and make decisions that are reflective in the collective ethos. Where does the line exist between obeying ‘power’ or choosing to stand in our own?
No matter the context of the workplace, the marketplace or communal space, I sense the need to pay attention.
Where we place our attention or inattention becomes the fuel to give our individual powers to others or claim it for ourselves. Absorbing negative information, misinformation and gaslighting tactics on social media feeds fires of deception. It’s like drinking from a firehose without the care or skill to discern what is true or false. Forced fed water or poison?
Is the rule of law useful? Do updates need to be made? Or do we want to live behind the walls of a police state nation? I choose to stand with others who care about all of us, not some of us.
It is our turn to delve into what’s really going on. Even after hundreds of years, we are an imperfect democracy. Our choice point has arrived to make individual and collective decisions about whether to keep and improve what democracy can become or let it die. To obey in advance is a pathway I choose not to take.
