People like yourself and your LinkedIn network!

Recently we have seen many people posting about the crimes being done and the thousands of children being killed/bombed in Gaza. Yet, some are asking if LinkedIn is the right place for this. I consider people in LinkedIn as the intellectuals and the professionals in our society. At the core of that we – the educated – have a moral responsibility towards our communities side by side with our professional work.

So you may wonder about your role.

I would not have written this in a better way than the paper Noam Chomsky published in 1967 for similar reasons as we have been witnessing. The players were the only difference. He was criticizing US prutality and unjustified war in Vietnam. I put the source below, but the summary of the article is that:

“intellectuals should make themselves responsible for searching for the truth and the exposing of lies, especially lies by their government “

He suggested – which I would think we would agree to – that if we don’t play this role actively, we will end up with disastrous situations, and we all suffer the consequences. You may ask what I have done to deserve the suffering!

Because you did not search for and promote truth and expose lies, you have not done your public responsibilities to save your society from dragging into lies. You simply did not put your education/thinking to work for the society in large. Being passive is only serving the agenda of those in power.

Quoting below part of the article, feel free to replace the ones in the article with current players:

(Macdonald concludes: “Only those who are willing to resist authority themselves when it conflicts too intolerably with their personal moral code, only they have the right to condemn the death-camp paymaster.” The question, “What have I done?” is one that we may well ask ourselves, as we read each day of fresh atrocities in Vietnam—as we create, or mouth, or tolerate the deceptions that will be used to justify the next defense of freedom.)

So this is a humble request to my colleagues (especially US citizens), play your role because if we don’t, the fire does not distinguish between those who ignite it and those who were close by and did not warn or prevent ignition.

Your voice matters!
Don’t be in denial!

Resources:

The Responsibility of Intellectuals

The Responsibility of Intellectuals – Wikipedia