Have you ever had one of those days where you feel as if you need to go outside and scream from frustration, or beat your head against the wall?
I try to provide assistance for my patients, but some days it’s a lost cause. Governmental bureaucracy at its finest works in a race with the slowest snails, constantly dallying and delaying essential services needed NOW, not next month. No matter how many attempts are made from how many directions, the favorite words of bureaucrats are ‘we have to wait until the paperwork is finished.’ That wait, by the way, is probably going to put a certain person into the emergency room by the end of this week.
There is a trend online about Pass It On. In it, a witness sees a random act of kindness, and passes it to another person whom they see in need. Why is it that our government has to have the conscience and rationale of Ebenezer Scrooge, instead of Florence Nightingale or Mother Teresa? Is it because this is a system built upon ‘me’ instead of ‘we’? Or is it something more??
Could it be that our system is so focused on the here and now that it can’t see that it could be destroying what could be in the future – that, in the current mindset of political correctness we are creating Orwell’s 1984 in a more disasterous form than the writer ever imagined. The worst thing to destroy is freedom of thought, freedom of expression, freedom of speech – and that is what is happening in our world, daily.
Cherokee Redbird 