Are you misssing the point about Friday the 13th?

Friday the 13th is a great day to look at things from a different perspective. People like to think it's a day that things don't go right, but maybe it’s a day when typical rules change. That change may reveal a great opportunity. It's easy to dismiss things as wrong when they don't go as expected, but don't be too quick to judge. For example, a mispeelled word can bee percceived as a clhumsy roofreading m1stake, when it might be an opa9ue clue to something different.

An alternative to regulating companies

The answer to individuals who want more regulation is not to layer more red tape on top of the mess of bureaucracy. Rather, the individual answer is to go to the core. That core would be… individuals.

The best way to ensure the "right" thing gets done is to make individuals responsible. Individuals are too insulated and secured by organizations to feel any responsibility for their actions within them. The larger the organization, the more secure individuals feel and the more opportunity for wrong-doing. Regulation on any organization versus on the individuals does not address the problem. See that every entity, be it an industry, corporate, non-profit, or governmental organization, has individual(s) in it. Educate people on the role their individual part plays while making them responsible for the effects of that and we will get a true shift in results.

Ignore the man speeding through a red light

This was the attitude of one person, who I believe represents

many others. In my neighborhood association, someone posted

about a specific driver who sped across a yellow line and then

ran a red light. A neighbor who was almost in an accident with

an offender vented in a reasonable post to their neighbors.

One person responded saying that they should have gone

to the city to "fix that intersection". Talk about diffusion of

responsibility. Instead of blaming a specific person who clearly

disregards rules, this person is thus inclined to let government

somehow find their own solutions without identifying specific

individuals. So considering the facts, look at the inconsistency:

we appeal to government to somehow create more rules

to stop someone who does not follow the rules. Keep in mind,

we know what the problem is. It’s not an inanimate government.

It's that individual.

Individuals Hiding Behind Bureaucracy

I cringe every time I have to deal with a large corporation for a problem with a bill or service. I know there are going to be at least five minutes working through a phone tree. My issue is rarely one of the twenty I have to listen through. When I do speak with a person, they are usually limited with what they can do. The typical answer is, "I understand your issue, but it's not something I or my manager can fix. I am sorry but I need to forward you to..." Rarely has even a simple answer taken less than an hour to resolve. More importantly, I always feel so alone against "the system".

The problem is diffusion of responsibility. The entity is understandably managing its risk by limited what any one person can do. Bureaucratic processes make it hard for any individual to deviate from their system. They leave it up to the system, but the offset of this is disempowering individuals. Disempowered individuals disassociate themselves from responsibility. "I'm not equipped to do anything about that, so I am not responsible." The anecdotes are endless. Eventually, bad process lead good people to do bad things they would not have done if held personally responsible. In the end, the bureaucracy generates negative effects and frustration through the actions of individuals without any individuals feeling responsible for their quota. And this is how bureaucracies have more proclivity for immoral actions than individuals, even though the true perpetrators in the system are still individuals hiding behind bureaucracy.

Rachel Maddow should blame Drew

Blame Wall Street, at least according to Rachel Maddow. In my

book, Why Not Blame Drew?, inanimate things can't incur blame.

If you want to blame, you can blame neither physical houses

nor Wall Street. They are equally guilty (i.e. not guilty at all).

Finding the one responsible is easier than you may think. That

individual is writing this. I am the one who takes ultimate and

absolute responsibility for financial systems going up into more

flames. Blame me. Blame Drew!

I am

I  am

Ignorant

In  how

Ignorant

I  am

Children, can you see a different perspective?

Children are notorious for not paying attention to what is happening around them. They take away something someone else is using or they back into things or else they block the view of others who are watching television. Children become so concerned with their own needs that they don't pay attention to others.

Unfortunately, many adults are not much different. I see it in public in the way they drive, walk through crowds, and talk so loudly on their phones in public. Are they really adult?

At a children's museum, I had to stick out my arm several times to prevent other parents from backing over my daughter. At my local elementary school, I watch parents, who just dropped their kids off, speed past other parents walking their kids to school. Can you see how I feel?

What needs to happen to make these adults recognize the other humans who occupy the world? Why not see the world from

a different perspective?

Seeing death from a different perspective

    What is

    the leading cause

of death in the U.S.A.?

Guns are dangerous. So are chemicals you can buy at the grocery store,

cliffs, and cars. Cars are not only dangerous, they are over three times

more dangerous than guns. More so, unlike cars, guns are specifically

allowed. The 2nd Amendment is devoted to our right to bear arms. This

Amendment is second to your right to free speech. So, before you criticize

guns, look at the CDC list of leading deaths for 2007:

Unintentional Car Accidents                     42,000

Unintentional Poisoning                             30,000

Unintentional Fall                                     23,000

Homicide by gun                                13,000

Concerned about guns more than cars?

See this from a different perspective.