Sometimes we will be triggered to a point where we won't be able to concentrate on anything but a single topic! I've been thinking about a mathematics problem just a minute ago, now in a completely different world; thinking about 'why it happens?'; the following.
It was a mere casual and commonly seen mode of conversation.
Person A: It is not my fault, I asked them to do so and they didn't.
Person B: But you must have made it sure that if they did it or not.
in b/w two sweepers.
This single pair of dialogue opened certain folder in my brain where I've collected such observational facts... It was a rush of thoughts and I can't stop writing...
Person C: I'm going to report it, I'm afraid of no one. I'm someone who used to say things frankly. It's his fault.
Person D: Yes, I know!
in b/w two securities.
__________
Doctor: It's been heard that something went wrong here. Does it have something to do with us?
Assistant: No, nothing.
Doctor: Thank God, I was afraid if they'll blame us.
Assistant: No, we don't have to worry, it's not our fault.
__________
Student: Sir, you could've mailed all of us to avoid the inconsistency.
Teacher: It's not my fault. Tell him
PS: the teacher is also a scientist in a prestigious Indian Institute.
__________
Person A: No, no one told me to do so.
Person B: Yes, he must have told you.
b/w two office assistants.
I've given variety of personalities by job to show the similarity of the behavior despite their job position. You must be familiar with such kind of conversation and probably you would even be able to provide examples from your own conversation.
Now, the question is why are we so interested in inquiring the guilty person? Does that really matter? If it does why,how and to what degree?
It can be observed in almost all disciplines.
If someone gets beaten to death, we used to ask 'who is the killer', When we hear about solar scam, we tend to ask 'who's the politician helped them receiving crores' .
We are satisfied once the guilty person gets arrested and punished. (PS: if you happen to laugh thinking no one gets punished! currently we are discussing the nature of inquiring the guilty person). One could reason this attitude based on the anxiety about our own safety and security of life. If the killer is not punished, he may repeat it and the next victim could be us! In the next case, we superficially think the corruption make the development slow and hence as a barrier to one's financial and social security. Regardless the validity of their belief on corruption the fact is again they are afraid of their social security. which falls back to the previous case as that of the killer story!
But is the reasoning valid???
It may seem it is, but...let us go back a bit, to our childhood, back to school when we were in first or second standard.
Do you remember any incidents in which teachers ask us 'who did this?' and we will be pointing at the guilty person or all of us will be quiet if we did it together...
Do you remember any fights with your siblings or cousines and when someone cries our parents would come and ask 'who made himer cry?' and with no ambiguity we will point them (or will be pointed by someone else).
Back to present day, in 2016! Have you seen any magic trick by which people calm down a crying child? You must also have done it...It's not hard to learn that magic trick.
The crying child's story!
When a child cries, if hesher is young enough not to understand the language, we used to make funny faces to distract them from that emotion. Or sometimes a crow or a falling leaf would do the job perfectly. And here is the magic trick comes if all those do not work...
We would summon someone else and we would act as if we are beating or punching them (for making the child cry (!)), and that someone is supposed to act as if hesher is crying (for being guilty in making himer cry).
That's all; It Is Done!!!!!!! The child stops crying and we lose nothing because we know we were acting... Our life become easy with these simple tricks!
Similarly if a child falls down in hiser earlier stage of walking and cry, we would beat the floor for making him fall down.
Can we reason the child's behavior with 'the anxiety about our own safety and security of life' as in the case of corruption or murder? Not really, isn't it? because children don't think about it but simply are getting distracted by a different event. (PS: and we are not keen in solving their issue that made them cry).
So why are we doing it? Who made us think that the child would calm down if someone(them -who we make the child think that- we think as the guilty person) gets punished for an issue ??? In general, this way of upbringing would make the child do the same to a crying child once hesher grow up(extrapolate it to society too!); until and unless hesher develop an ability to think rationally in child upbringing(or to look at society and issues). It's a positive feedback loop!
A trend that is seen all these cases independent of the depth or the seriousness of the problem is 'punishment' mentality over 'problem solving' mentality. So if at all we are punishing someone or the guilty person itself, is the problem being solved?
Once we start discussing the solution, this piece of writing will get longer and longer making everyone bored. Hence I do not want to discuss it in this article. But you may start thinking, where to cut the loop and to make a change...
For the time being, this 'single' dysfunctional attitude indeed enhances the bureaucratic dysfunction caused by the strict division of labour in every disciplines, which in result affect several other troubles in implementing a certain task.Say, based on negligible/ trivial needs you would be circling around offices walking to and fro from one office to another and wasting your and their time... making the system run very slow...
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