From Humanoid Faults to Manipulated Consensus, 44

And we crave for blame shifting.

Which is an issue in itself, penultimate but far from the least. I previously started by mentioning as “good practice” assuming the viewpoint of complete responsibility whatsoever; now it’s appropriate to mention our lethal inclination to the exact opposite “bad practice”: “not my fault”, “none of my business”, “not my responsibility”, “he who minds his own business lives for 100 years”, when on the contrary anything under the sun, everywhere and anytime, is your business, too. Even when we blame all sorts of politicians, public officials and civil servants whose basic aim is overthrowing who is accountable to whom, and turning citizens from their masters and employers into their slaves and cash cows, there’s more than a hint of this: sure, when it comes to taking responsibility we may be forced to come to terms with circumstances, but are we nonetheless asking ourselves what can we actually do, or our complaints are a mere ritual to exorcise this very question?
Our insatiable crave for irresponsibility does even ramify into inanimate matter; and its pernicious consequences are much like inanimate matter: almost unlimited.
A case in point is the demonisation of plastic currently en vogue: plastic in itself is blamed for the environmental problems related to it, hence the “solution” eagerly hailed by the humanoids is getting rid of plastic. Plastic is probably the first original large−scale material created by Man; its so−called flaws are actually its very virtues it was created for: a plastic bag weighing one fifth of an ounce allows one to hold together and easily transport eleven pounds of bulk load with one hand while freeing the other hand, waterproof, not affecting the load, unaffected by it, remaining indefinitely so, and efficiently, easily and completely recyclable.