The AWOL Architect

“Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibility at the very least to inform yourself about power. Beyond that, it is a question of whether you believe in moral certainties or not.”  ―  Noam Chomsky WARNING: grammatical errors and stream of consciousness ahead; this is not a cohesive essay (sorry). The past couple of weeks I’ve hit the stage where the amount of privilege I have in my position starts to make me extremely emotional…tears come on a day to day basis now with overwhelming thoughts coming to mind about leaving, saying ...