Changing of America and humanity’s responsibility to society

The challenges of the 21st century, whether economic or environmental, cultural or biological leave behind require current methods of thinking and behaving at both the individual and affable levels. There must be an emphasis on changing the perceptions, particularly in twenty-first century America, which many people experience ab show up the nature of private righteousness and personal empowerment.While it seems obvious enough to say, as Barack Obama asserts that unfermented generations of Ameri nominates are waiting for a politics with the maturity to balance idealism and realism, to distinguish between what can and cannot be compromised (Obama, 42) the ramifications of such a politics of maturity and realism extend to many important areas of American club including economics, technology, and philosophy adn religion. What is necessary for America to meet the challenges of the future is a social cultural acceptance of the fact that responsibility, and not merely the purs uit of self-interests, is a path to personal empowerment.This last statement may seem unconnected to many Americans. A great number of people view themselves in purely stuffistic terms and insufficiency what they can get forbidden of society without taking any personal responsibility for the consequences. For almost people, vivification h antiquateds no import outside of its material dimension and this vent of meaning in American culture has consequences beyond the immediately personal The loss of meaning is a product of modern thought. From Marx and Freud to neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, western thought has consistently undermined responsibility.We have no choice, we are constantly t previous(a), because of economic forces, our unconscious, or our genes. Yet, at the identical time, we live in a world that looks us with unceasing choices. (Sardar) As strange as it sounds, the only way to break the pass of end slight anxiety over our limitless freedom is by a ccept responsibility for the choices we ferment. This is a kind of paradox in American society, We want to have it both ways, and so we end up confused and cynical.Our fixation with individuality and self-interest further erodes personal and collective responsibility (Sardar) which means, the less one begins to revalue their own existence the less responsibility they lead feel for their actions. To accept responsibility is, in itself, to accept that life is purposeful and to accept that life in meaningful is an act of self-empowerment. we must square up to understand that Freedom is both a gift and a challenge. It has value only when we respect it and enhance it individually and collectively. And when we exercise it with responsibility. (Sardar).In this way, a change in the basic philosophical vision present in American culture may help us to begin to make inroads against the challenges which face us in the new world. As Barack Obama points out, economics in the twenty-first century no longer function along the same models they had embodied for years. He writes that In this much competitive global environment, the old corporate formula of steady profits and stodgy management no longer worked (Obama, 156). What Obama is driving at with this statement can be considered an formula of humanizing economics, a must-needed step for America in the twenty-first century.By accept responsibility for our actions we will understand the connections between the injustices and disparities in society and the insurance which have been inflicted upon the environment. Though some of our challenges may be economic and some may be based in moral and ethical issues, the unifying(a) factor is always human responsibility. We begin to understand ourselves much more neatly and understand our challenges more clearly when we admit that we live in a world which desperately needs fixing and in which demurral is seductively easy and cheap, at least for a time.We must have sex a nd seek to understand the connection between poverty, social injustice, and environmental degradation. (Orr 89) Barack Obamas closet that the new economics has paved a way clear of the old economics which stressed only self-interests and profits is a key to thought the kind of view of commercial enterprise and corporate responsibility which will have to be embraced in American society as we move off to accept our responsibilities and meet the challenges of the future.Instead of viewing purely money and material growth as the only forms of profit in business, corporations of the future will begin to realize that business behavior and government policy toward business requires, more than ever, an appreciation of the firms human dimensions, the dimensions left out of the neoclassical theory (Tomer 1).The future corporation will accept responsibility for its actions and view itself as shaped by not only market place forces but by societal ones (Tomer 19) and in so recognizing othe r forms of conquest and profit namely, the maintaining of ethical and environmental standards which contribute to the overall growth and social welfare of humanity may over-ride present-day obsession with self-interest and materialistic profit.If Barack Obamas literary works in The Audacity of Hope are any real recital of the politician of the future or the President of the future it si clear that America still has the capacity to grown adn recognize leaders who can summon a bold-enough vision as well as present workable solutions to meet the challenges we have at least partially created for ourselves.