Sunday, July 3, 2016

CIVIC VANDALISM ON BALD HILL ROAD

CIVIC VANDALISM is the very best that this outcome can be described as. 

Like it is with other manifestations of vandalism it comes about as a consequence of unchecked delinquency and underlying unawareness, inexperience and cultural insensitivity. It’s not like you can point your finger at an individual and the go deal with it all as the ‘problem’ presents itself at every levels, all at once and "all the Bloody time" it seems.

Given the multiple options, the question has to be asked. If a ‘win’ is available for not just one win-win but several why aren’t they being looked at ...  or even for? If you're being paid a salary without bonuses and the only way up is to comply ... perhaps that's it. To look like you’re a winner its easy. To learn what needs/could to be done, that's harder.  Much harder!

The problem is a rolling predicament where if you perform you get short term congratulations that come with long term expectations, that in turn requires one to develop new skills. That takes time and effort.  But it might not earn you any more money. Why do it? Why aspire?

Better to maintain the status quo and not solve problems you can get away with not solving. Then you will continue to keep yourself in a manner to which you’ve become accustomed  .... relatively risk free.

Then comes the uncomfortable ‘sidelines’ that come 'one’s way' where one can benefit from oiling the wheels of that wagon over there ... so to say. What goes around comes around.

This little exercise in CIVIC VANDALISM comes with a little side benefit to ‘the operation’ in that a “tree” is in fact just so much BLOODY WOOD CHIP. [LINK]

It becomes expedient to declare a tree as being “in the way”, OR “at the end of its usefulness/life”, OR “diseased” Or a myriad of things. Evidence is not required! Likewise, neither is accountability it seems!

Also, due to the lack of knowledge/culture/experience/whatever its not possible to see all kinds of things that can/should be done even when explained.

While we fail to expect accountability we pay more and more for less and less! It’s all our own faults!



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The seat of "the problem"


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