Post by grumble on Apr 1, 2017 10:40:04 GMT 10
when I see articles like this in the news and on forums such as this it does cause a bit of sadness in the pit of my soul and there is a very simple reason for this
It clearly shows just how disenfranchised we ( as a society ) have become from the real world and its fickle moments and just how disassociated from fellow man we have also become
To give an example of what I mean when I was a child I grew up in a region prone to natural events be it flooding , cyclones and bushfires the potential to be cut off from the outside world was a very real possibility so a majority not all but a greater majority of people that lived in the region used to carry extra supplies through the seasons of upheaval the joke was everyone would eat xmas cake in march because you could buy the tinned cakes with a 10 year shelflife for next to nothing after xmas so everyone carried a healthy pantry of shelf stable goods for emergency supplies and for when the relatives dropped in unannounced
people knew to keep their cars full if there was bad weather around and hell everyone still paid for everything with either cash or checks
now when things did go bad there would be the normal next day reaction of people checking on each other and making sure everyone was ok I remember everyone knew who had what skills and there was a nurse that lived up the street so my dad went and saw her to see if she needed any supplies then did a round up of the street with a shopping list and as soon as he said
"the nurse needs these items do you have any?
people would not hesitate to go get what they had to give to her as her place was now a makeshift medical centre
The few that needed greater medical help were loaded into private vehicles that were fully fuelled and equipped with supplies to transport them to functioning hospitals
I remember my dad setting up the generator at her house then everyone brining up their tins of lawn mower fuel to add to the fuel supplies to keep the power up to the nurse as now her place wasn't just a medical centre it was also a nursery for mother with babies or little children plenty of clean water and other supplies to get everyone through
No one complained no one objected it just seemed like them most logical thing to do help each other and be comfortable and share what you had but most had everything they needed anyway
the was what about me my needs are greater well there was but not very much of it
only as little as 30 years later with have a society of silk worms that are completely reliant on the system to be functioning to act and behave like normal civilised people.
I question the government and hold them accountable for all of this not the people because the buck does stop with policies and directives displayed and communicated by local , state an federal government
The constant assumption that the government will take care of you and it will!
but only to the best of its abilities with the resources that it has available and it will prioritise where those resources go to do the most benefit to the overall bigger picture and by that I mean getting the power on to 10k people and getting infrastructure up and working for those 10k people is a far more pressing issue then getting the power back to a town of 200 people that can be easily evacuated to a better location
This is where the dependant mentality is a product of the governments own policies
There should be a social responsibility that is endorsed and strongly encouraged by the federal government for individual households to maintain a supply of vital resources to sustain life for 1 week for each person in every household
if you could get only 50% of the Australian households to do this then you have just dropped the demand on emergency services by a minimum of at least 40% in a disaster zone
However there is this ongoing campaign of not encouraging or supporting this type of activity rather they just keep telling people we will help you and fix everything when in the cold light of day they do a good job but their is only so much they can do before run out of everything
It clearly shows just how disenfranchised we ( as a society ) have become from the real world and its fickle moments and just how disassociated from fellow man we have also become
To give an example of what I mean when I was a child I grew up in a region prone to natural events be it flooding , cyclones and bushfires the potential to be cut off from the outside world was a very real possibility so a majority not all but a greater majority of people that lived in the region used to carry extra supplies through the seasons of upheaval the joke was everyone would eat xmas cake in march because you could buy the tinned cakes with a 10 year shelflife for next to nothing after xmas so everyone carried a healthy pantry of shelf stable goods for emergency supplies and for when the relatives dropped in unannounced
people knew to keep their cars full if there was bad weather around and hell everyone still paid for everything with either cash or checks
now when things did go bad there would be the normal next day reaction of people checking on each other and making sure everyone was ok I remember everyone knew who had what skills and there was a nurse that lived up the street so my dad went and saw her to see if she needed any supplies then did a round up of the street with a shopping list and as soon as he said
"the nurse needs these items do you have any?
people would not hesitate to go get what they had to give to her as her place was now a makeshift medical centre
The few that needed greater medical help were loaded into private vehicles that were fully fuelled and equipped with supplies to transport them to functioning hospitals
I remember my dad setting up the generator at her house then everyone brining up their tins of lawn mower fuel to add to the fuel supplies to keep the power up to the nurse as now her place wasn't just a medical centre it was also a nursery for mother with babies or little children plenty of clean water and other supplies to get everyone through
No one complained no one objected it just seemed like them most logical thing to do help each other and be comfortable and share what you had but most had everything they needed anyway
the was what about me my needs are greater well there was but not very much of it
only as little as 30 years later with have a society of silk worms that are completely reliant on the system to be functioning to act and behave like normal civilised people.
I question the government and hold them accountable for all of this not the people because the buck does stop with policies and directives displayed and communicated by local , state an federal government
The constant assumption that the government will take care of you and it will!
but only to the best of its abilities with the resources that it has available and it will prioritise where those resources go to do the most benefit to the overall bigger picture and by that I mean getting the power on to 10k people and getting infrastructure up and working for those 10k people is a far more pressing issue then getting the power back to a town of 200 people that can be easily evacuated to a better location
This is where the dependant mentality is a product of the governments own policies
There should be a social responsibility that is endorsed and strongly encouraged by the federal government for individual households to maintain a supply of vital resources to sustain life for 1 week for each person in every household
if you could get only 50% of the Australian households to do this then you have just dropped the demand on emergency services by a minimum of at least 40% in a disaster zone
However there is this ongoing campaign of not encouraging or supporting this type of activity rather they just keep telling people we will help you and fix everything when in the cold light of day they do a good job but their is only so much they can do before run out of everything
