Personal responsibilty vs person responsible
Snow always brings out the best and the worst in people. What I noted this year was that the level of whingers is on the up. Blame the authorities (whoever they are) find out who is responsible for not clearing the roads, for not gritting, for now cleaning the pavements for not salting the shopping center and have have them thrown in jail! Schools are closed, people cannot drive to work, shops are not being refilled! How will people survive without their tinned salmon now the shops have run out!
Its enough to make your blood boil. Where is the personal responsibility? Outsourced. We now expect our routines (whatever it is we do) to carry on regardless of what nature throws at us. We buy houses next to big rivers, enjoy the beauty of the scenery year after year and then blame the authority when a flood ruins your 2 billion pound per sq millimeter original wood flooring. We build houses on volcanoes, skyscrapers and wood shack houses in earthquake zones. We live in a world where we are no longer prepared to take personal responsibility for what we do, or more importantly, what is done to us.
Snow comes every year almost. If not for weeks, at least somewhere in the uk will have light dusting. Its winter, it snows. Pipes freeze, electricity cables fail, heating oil cannot get through, roads don't get cleared. But how many of the whingers have studded tires at home? I would bet none. How may have alternative fuel heaters on standby. I would be none.
Its time people started taking personal responsibility. If the pavement is not cleared, pick up a shovel and clear a bit. Buy some salt and salt your pavement.
We have outsourced our personal responsibility. If the community pulled together and helped clear the roads of snow then the roads would be cleared and pavements would be passable (Or just buy decent boots). But we have the local council to do that for us. What else do we pay them for? Rubbish. Just because we have the authority to do (or fail to do) things does not give us the right, when things go wrong to do nothing.
But the award for staggering stupidity goes to the guy on TV today. They were talking about the announcement by the water authorities not to walk on ice. Then they switch to this guy who had just walked out onto the ice to the middle of the lake and back. They asked him what he thought of the advice. He said they were just out to spoil the fun and that he had waled out to the middle and back and did not go through.
Well that's OK then.
Its enough to make your blood boil. Where is the personal responsibility? Outsourced. We now expect our routines (whatever it is we do) to carry on regardless of what nature throws at us. We buy houses next to big rivers, enjoy the beauty of the scenery year after year and then blame the authority when a flood ruins your 2 billion pound per sq millimeter original wood flooring. We build houses on volcanoes, skyscrapers and wood shack houses in earthquake zones. We live in a world where we are no longer prepared to take personal responsibility for what we do, or more importantly, what is done to us.
Snow comes every year almost. If not for weeks, at least somewhere in the uk will have light dusting. Its winter, it snows. Pipes freeze, electricity cables fail, heating oil cannot get through, roads don't get cleared. But how many of the whingers have studded tires at home? I would bet none. How may have alternative fuel heaters on standby. I would be none.
Its time people started taking personal responsibility. If the pavement is not cleared, pick up a shovel and clear a bit. Buy some salt and salt your pavement.
We have outsourced our personal responsibility. If the community pulled together and helped clear the roads of snow then the roads would be cleared and pavements would be passable (Or just buy decent boots). But we have the local council to do that for us. What else do we pay them for? Rubbish. Just because we have the authority to do (or fail to do) things does not give us the right, when things go wrong to do nothing.
But the award for staggering stupidity goes to the guy on TV today. They were talking about the announcement by the water authorities not to walk on ice. Then they switch to this guy who had just walked out onto the ice to the middle of the lake and back. They asked him what he thought of the advice. He said they were just out to spoil the fun and that he had waled out to the middle and back and did not go through.
Well that's OK then.
posted by So long and thanks for all the fish at
4:08 pm
2 Comments:
I agree with the sentiment wholeheartedly.
BTW, are descent boots different form ascent boots?
Thank you for your observant comment. There is a difference. You don't get a kick UP the arse with descent boots when I see you next whereas you would with decent boots.
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