Wednesday, June 10, 2020

The Ineffeciency of -Isms



June 10, 2020


You know how I feel about Inefficiency, right? It’s on my own personal list of Deadly Sins.

Well, try this on for size.


Newsworthy event. National outrage. Promises to enact reform.

Repeat.

Repeat.

Repeat.

Every time this happens, tallies are kept: Lives lost, economic damage, trauma endured…yet nothing changes, and the costs mount.

We keep repeating the cycle because our “isms” are too deeply engrained: Racism, Sexism, Religious -isms. They make people believe that others are inferior, and should be treated as such.

We have all kinds of motivation to find ways to educate people on the hazards of fallacious thinking, and take action against those who hurt others based on that thinking; but we don’t follow through.

So we keep doing the same thing, over and over.

It’s an inefficient way to run a country.


(See? Inefficiency really can be a deadly sin.)



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