Call of Duty.
Being Human, Collaboration, Society
Here’s fun:
- Open this link in Google: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define+duty
- Read the first definition.
- Click the big grey arrow at the bottom of the box to show more detail, specifically the ‘usage over time’ graph.
- Reflect on that a moment.
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There are [at least] two ways of interpreting this.
One is that “Nobody gives a f*** any more about duty to others.”
The other is to realise that “duty” is a loaded word, used to control others. “Do your duty” can mean “Do what I tell you to.”
So we can interpret the chart as “Fewer people talk about doing their duty [to king and country] any more”.
Or we can interpret it as “Fewer people are controlled by someone else’s idea of what their duty is, because they are more in touch with their own inner drive and life’s purpose.”
The same chart for dharma https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define+dharma
and for calling
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define+calling
show a different story.
(No doubt you had a different interpretation 😉 )
I think the slight upswing at the end is due to the video game franchise…