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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/566989/it-really-is-hard-for-older-job-seekers-to-find-work-at-the-moment
It really is hard to see the outcomes actually occurring that would have been expected from earlier poor measures used by government. That any thinking person could foretell these things almost makes me despair for the state of NZ national intelligence and thought. We have avoided implementing political systems and measures that would enable us to handle the future difficulties that past ignoring of outcomes have resulted in. And so it goes.
Is there any hope that thoughtful and practical and kindly-minded people can find a way to get in charge without bloodshed, and also not be stonewalled by power or bent administrators and the tech and money-mad? Is
democracy as we have it brought down by this reaction about everybody will know the right thing when voted are put together so things can be left to anybody who gets elected, and nobody actually does the right thing.
Philosophical quote for an unthinking world with no time for meditation – from Charles Osgood Wood.
Charles Osgood Wood III (January 8, 1933 – January 23, 2024) was an American radio and television commentator, writer, and musician. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Osgood
A Poem About Responsibility
There was a most important job that needed to be done,
And no reason not to do it, there was absolutely none.
But in vital matters such as this, the thing you have to ask
Is who exactly will it be who’ll carry out the task?
Anybody could have told you that everybody knew
That this was something somebody surely had to do.
Nobody was unwilling; anybody had the ability.
But nobody believed that it was their responsibility.
It seemed to be a job that anybody could have done,
If anybody thought he was supposed to be the one.
But since everybody recognised that anybody could,
Everybody took for granted that somebody would.
But nobody told anybody that we are aware of,
That he would be in charge of seeing it was taken care of.
And nobody took it on himself to actually follow through,
And do what everybody thought that somebody would do.
When what everybody needed did not get done at all,
Everybody complained that somebody dropped the ball.
Anybody then could see it was an awful crying shame,
And everybody looked around for somebody to blame.
Somebody ought to have done the job
And Everybody should have,
But in the end Nobody did
What Anybody could have.
Charles Osgood
And on Death which apparently we have set up to be more expensive under user pays.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/566987/dying-proves-to-be-a-costly-undertaking
Ironic as the dead will never cough up the moolah. Somebody ought to do something about these bodies that make it expensive to provide dead bodies with a decent place of rest that their families can afford along with the other funeral costs.!!
Stoic Quotes on Death & Grief from Seneca
“Death is not an evil. What is it then? The one law mankind has that is free of all discrimination.” “Before I became old I tried to live well; now that I am old, I shall try to die well; but dying well means dying gladly.”
Stoic Quotes on Death & Grief: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases
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