Do People Even Want Responsibility?

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

Sigmund Freud

This isn’t the way it has to be, and it’s not reflective of the best within most people. But sadly, this is most often the way it turns out. In some grander and greater human future, it may be different. First, most of us will have to shed the ethical, psychological and political barbarism, especially of our era.