Fail. Bail. Repeat.

Excerpt from the book The View From Lazy Point by Carl Safina

When we keep what we like and discard what we don't, we're privatizing gain and socializing pain. We make others pay for our mistakes. Now corporations demand, "save my assets, buy my garbage." If they screw up - they still get paid. If you don't buy - you pay anyway. Here's what they learn (it's pretty different from what we learn): "If your failure and mismanagement are so colossal that your bankruptcy threatens the whole economy, we'll duck the fallout and you'll get the bailout." Fail. Bail. Repeat. We know what will happen as we create an expectation that destructive behavior gets rewarded. Don't we? 

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Hmmm. thought provoking!?

I completely agree. It is so much true that since the beginning of human evolution, we've always kept what we liked and discarded what we didn't want. And now the garbage has taken a whole new shape because of this.

Author rightly points out that we are all creating expectations for rewarding destructive behaviors.

There is more to think and responsibly act!

Srik

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bringing more to the world

Excerpt from the book The View From Lazy Point by Carl Safina

We each make our solo voyages to deep, expansive waters. Alone in our contest with the wider world, we test our mettle and seek our trophies, promotions, compliments, and accolades. We strive to be needed and to thereby know that there is a reason for us. We seek to be told we are good because we're too unsure of ourselves to know. Yet often we remain so focused on our neediness that we forget the creatures - human and otherwise - we're drawing into the vortex of our own passion play. All of us have compulsive loves we must forbear. We forget to see that we can engage the world without harming it. And although we fish for approval, the challenge is : to capture our prizes while bringing more to the world than we take. 

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I'm thinking about this phrase again and again - 'bringing more to the world than we take'. How can we engage the world without harming it?

I think so far we have been directly the cause for all the destruction around us. How much have I contributed to the world? is an interesting question to ask myself.

and what a beautiful writer Carl Safina is! I'm thoroughly enjoying reading this book. It is one of the best i've ever read so far.

Srik

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