Perhaps the word "responsible" is the one that should give us food for thought, in that, each of us bears responsibility for exactly the amount of power (agency) we have and can choose to wield... or choose to not wield. Either way, that much responsibility is ours to keep ourselves "on the hook" for. Of course there IS much that we do not have power over (and therefore are not accountable for).

But we have become used to "systems" and "bureaucratic bodies" and the like which exercise a great deal of collected power (the merged agencies of many becoming a single force of command), while carefully absolving each and every individual taking part in their actions, from any *sense* of personal responsibility. It might be a useful exercise in thought, and in will, to discover what "acts" we ourselves currently carry out, with the understanding that the system, or the bureaucracy, or the corporation, or whatever collected body, of which we are a part, absolves us of personal responsibility.

This may begin with individual people singling ourselves OUT of these systems by dint of ACCEPTING responsibility for our own power and agency, and going from there...