politics

The world to me seems settled at the moment but I am very aware of the swirling mess that is currently dominating the lives of individuals close to me. I was unintentionally involved in the fray. Who knew blogging had an element of danger attached to it? I don’t know the whole story so I will refrain from commenting but rather talk about something that I heard on the radio this morning.

 

Apparently in Cape Town on Monday a 42 year old man was shot four times over a parking space. If you want to know more click here. This morning Highway Radio had a phone in about road rage and what can be done about it. One lady called in saying that the government is at fault and that they are not doing enough about it.

 

To me it seems that when ever anything does not agree with our way or life or our views on the way the world should be, we stop and say “let’s blame the government’. We never seem to stop and say “What can I do to make the problem better?” How can my behaviour change the way the world works? It’s easy enough to blame the government but it never seems easy to take responsibility for our own actions.

 

It is true that perhaps the government can do something about road rage, but then we’d find something else to complain about. The crime is bad, the roads are not clean. There’s too much of one thing and not enough of another. South Africa is a beautiful country with beautiful people who are all content to blame the government for everything.

 

I personally think there are lot of mistakes that have been made, are being made and will be made in the future but we really need to actually take responsibility for ourselves instead of screaming “GOVERNMENT” every time.