tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556371561007953336.post7678389630581520738..comments2024-03-16T16:44:18.220-07:00Comments on Bad Cripple: Great Quotewilliam Peacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00223601480542461802noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556371561007953336.post-41534744567515087562011-01-05T12:18:53.441-08:002011-01-05T12:18:53.441-08:00Society is systematized. This creates a buffer for...Society is systematized. This creates a buffer for people so that they can distance themselves. The word for this when it is institutionalized is bureaucracy. A kind of variation on the waiter's "sorry, that's not my table" theme. Don't care, don't know.<br /><br />Just today I had a sample of it. The local council worker called me to inform me that the property taxes rebate of 40% I receive because of my son would be reduced to 20% because a clark had mistakingly given me 40% for the last 2 years. I asked her what mistake had been made since I've been getting the 40% for 10 years already. "That's all I have to say" was her response. She warned me not to snoop around the local council because then they would demand a retroactive return of the "bonus money".<br />*charging into rant*<br />Not only is this incorrect but without consideration of larger issues that go with keeping a child so extremely crippled at home. This comes a week after they came to possess my son's minivan because of an unpaid parking ticket that the traffic cop had no right giving anyway.<br /><br />This labyrinth of systemization is in my opinion perfectly suited to the mentality of shutting people down who are weak, the same human failing that sees "latch-key" children raise themselves while parent's gasp at what has become of youth today, of efficiency at the cost of humanity so that we can rush home in time to plop in front of the television and watch reality shows.<br /><br />No one cares about me so I won't care about anyone.<br />Bill, it's beyond my understanding how we've survived this long. But certainly it can't be because we took care of the weak.Eric Fischerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02471331868560587898noreply@blogger.com