The Ostrich, the Dog and the Driver!!

The Times of India website was staring at me with the news of the Mangalore air crash when I switched on my PC today morning. Immediately, I went to the television and found the television channels showing the gory details, interspersed with the images of Babu(Clergy) and Neta(politician) footfalls and of course the mandatory analysis of what happened, could have happened. Finally there was the routine game of blaming something or the other.

A friend of mine from Connecticut has send a mail quoting a news item from New York times where some self styled Air Safety expert has blamed the the administrators and the politicians behind the fiasco. And another one has woken up and debated that this is nothing to do with them.

It is always perhaps easy to pass on the blame to anybody else, while we ourselves refuse to take ownership of anything we do wrong. This is in all walks of life, whether it’s in a family situation or in the work situation. The worst part is that we thrive on it. We are like dogs who bark inside his own territory and nothing outside can poke our intellect and ability to do something.


So any calamity occurs we will quickly sort of analyze it with some heavy dose of preconceived notions and peppered with some over or lack of knowledge and irresponsible mental attitude. Then we will pass the verdict. We are all judges sitting inside an environment of emotion clogged evidences and clueless warped idea of common sense.

This is the system we thrive in, do well(!!) or disappear into oblivion, etc. There are a few for sure who do maneuver themselves above and out of this screwed up environment and get some nirvana. Unfortunately theirs is a tribe so small that it does not matter.

So we live on, like ostriches waiting for the disasters to strike us in various ways. I am distressed. Inspite of the scientific, economic and management developments, somewhere we are falling back. We seem to have already stepped on the accelerator pedal of our vehicle that’s going to drive us into the Black Hole. Sphere: Related Content