There’s a Danish proverb that says, “Blame is a lazy man’s wages”. Whilst there is a need for humans to find someone or something to blame when something goes wrong, the institutional blame culture is lazy and counter-productive.
The political blame game is now so transparent as to be scarcely credible. How often do we hear “…the mess left behind by the previous Labour government…” and “…because of the coalition’s cuts” or other such glib comments?
Sadly, the current government’s propensity to blame the victim (the unemployed, the disabled) or external forces (the Eurozone crisis, the previous administration) for current problems is now fuelling a blame culture within society itself. What’s more it doesn’t actually do anything to promote sensible debate or any desire to work together to overcome the issues.
Worse, it is actually causing us to turn on each other in the most hateful of ways as described here by The Guardian.
Small wonder when the Minister for Disabled People is busy playing the blame game too.
Maybe if we could stop looking for someone to blame and start trying to fix things in a more compassionate, honest way we can stop this slide towards an entirely divided society.
You are right, its lazy and easy to blame, the real work and real creativity starts with consideration. Which is why, for these huge issues nothing actually does get done as the brain power needed for positive heartfelt activity is beyond those who sit in judgement.
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