Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Who's fault is it anyway?
You ever notice how everytime there is a problem or something happens the first thing all the people do is spend alot of time trying to find out 'who's fault it is'? There may be a big disaster (Like the Gulf Coast) or a simple problem at work or at home. The first thing everyone wants to do is find out who's fault it is, like that is going to make it all better or something. We have this problem at work with our wonderful neighbors. Well actually it is with mosquitos but the mosquitos breed on our wonderful neighbor's property. Anyway I bring the problem to my boss quite often because the flying insects like me the best. And everytime my boss says things like, "It's probably because you throw food out in the trash can". or "It's you who attract them not us". And many more.. so finally I got enough of him and told him that "When there is a problem present, and all the people want to do is find someone to blame, it is clear that they have no intensions of fixing the problem, but only affixing blame". And then they are happy. So it's not like we care to fix the problem, it's just that if we can blame someone else, we are no longer responsible to care. It's like some of the politicians blaming the President for the natural disaster. duh! it's natural! That goes to show you how dumb some of our elected officials are I guess. Anyway, who cares who is to blame, if you aren't part of the solution, you are part of the problem if you are involved.
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I am totally with you on this one. Part of the problem is that cable news - well they can't stop talking, because that would mean dead air, and they would lose viewers... so they just keep running at the mouth... also, conflict will keep viewers tuned in to see how the conflict will be resolved, so conflict = viewers= ratings= advertising= mulah
get it? conflict = MONEY
basically these folks get paid to keep you watching the screen.
OK we have that on the one side
and on the other side of the argument
If the government stands around twiddling their thumb when a natural disaster happens, and there is mass chaos in a large city like that - well, someone needs to tell them to get off their butts and do something about it. Almost everyone agrees that part of the reason the government was ill prepared to deal with this natural disaster, is that all our good troups are tied up killing people all around the world.
Agreed, Jeff, But Take that on a much smaller scale.. say.. someone sets a tray of glasses on the counter before the husband called his wife to "Quick come here and help me with this" when it falls, its not the wifes fault becuase the husband called her to "Come Quick" but its not the husbands fault because he didnt set the tray down. or vice versa. So instead of solving the problem as a team, we tend to divide ourselves first by finding whos to blame then solving it alone.
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