Thursday, December 08, 2005
· posted at 12:49 AM
Walden dreams. People bug me some time.
Everyone is so trigger happy to point a blaming finger. I was at the post office and a guy happened to be the upteenth person to put his package in the self-service drop mailbox and the drawer jammed. Too bad you couldn't use those odds to win the lotto. Well, chaos insued as the people behind him became irate and were prompt to throw a "you belong on leprosy island" look at him when complaining to the staff.
Obviously, the man didn't intend to jam the box. If it wasn't him, it would have been the next person, or the next... The point is that it was a structural system problem at fault (drop mailbox was full) rather than the consequence of his individual behavior. Yet everyone was so quick to assign fault and blame to the victim.
A person is a tangible thing that you can see, touch, feel, and conceptulize, in contrast to these system problems that are underlying and out of sight. And everyone knows it's a lot easier to put a photograph rather than an invisible object on a dartboard.
Everyone is so trigger happy to point a blaming finger. I was at the post office and a guy happened to be the upteenth person to put his package in the self-service drop mailbox and the drawer jammed. Too bad you couldn't use those odds to win the lotto. Well, chaos insued as the people behind him became irate and were prompt to throw a "you belong on leprosy island" look at him when complaining to the staff.
Obviously, the man didn't intend to jam the box. If it wasn't him, it would have been the next person, or the next... The point is that it was a structural system problem at fault (drop mailbox was full) rather than the consequence of his individual behavior. Yet everyone was so quick to assign fault and blame to the victim.
A person is a tangible thing that you can see, touch, feel, and conceptulize, in contrast to these system problems that are underlying and out of sight. And everyone knows it's a lot easier to put a photograph rather than an invisible object on a dartboard.
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