In our day-to-day life, we many times arrive at decisions which are faulty and childish. Such decisions
are, many times, an outcome of a perturbed mind, poor understanding of internal
and external variables or over-consideration of causes and effects. The
mistakes incorporated in the initial process triggers a chain reaction that
ensures validation of Murphy’s law- “anything that can go wrong will go wrong”.
But not all the decisions are devastating, only a few are.
We all have seen people blaming
external forces, others, the situation for the unfavourable outcomes. However,
it’s absolutely painful to see people justifying their devastating decisions
which affects millions of people saying- “So what? Other people are also
indulged in such wrong doing? Why are you asking us?” It is even more
disturbing to see such flimsy response from public personalities.
“Godhra riots? Huh….why don’t you
talk about 1984 anti-Sikh riots?”
“Assam riots? Huh….why don’t you
talk about Godhra riots?”
“Coffins scam? Huh….let’s talk
about Bofors? ”
“No auctions in our time? Huh….there
was no auction in your time as well? ”
The devastating decisions of
governments (I presume most of them are inadvertent) followed by a blame game
is detrimental to parliamentary democracy. If I am caught stealing, let me
talk about the other person’s stealing; once we both are in the same colour, the other one cannot even point out at my mistake. As a resultof this blame game, the public figures and
organizations are at the brink of losing confidence of the common man. The
common man is increasingly becoming more and more detached from matters of
national interest. And the devastating decision makers enjoy their power at the
cost of democratic values and public accountability.
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