INTRO!  

In this month’s blog I’m going to write about a success at all cost’s and backward thinking sub-culture that exists in important area’s of our lives, sometimes without being aware of it.

Most of the opinion’s will be my own and speculative at best, I will try and explain the reasoning behind them the best I can.

I would like to point out there is nothing wrong with success, and the trimming’s and accolade’s that come with it ( to a certain extent ), but it’s the limit’s some people are willing to go to achieve it that interests me.

I’m going to break this blog into section’s, so here goes.

 THE FUZZ! & BOX TICKING MUPPET’S. 

Like most thing’s that involve human being’s, I am sure the police have the good, the bad and the average, although generally I put copper’s into two categories, the one’s who want to serve the community, which isn’t a bad thing, just show’s a lack of common sense and the ambitious bullies, you can always spot them by how far they pull their trousers up.

Although, there are always exception’s to the rule, good and bad.

The first story I am going to relate to this subject is something I saw on the television a number of year’s ago, I can’t remember the name of this programme, but it was in an early, week day slot and one of the presenter’s was Angela Rippon. It started off with an introduction to the police officer in question, then he sort of told us something about himself and what method’s he was going to use to catch some thieves that had ( if my memory serves me right ) been targeting a local park somewhere. So his great idea, which he seemed quite excited about was to leave a laptop unattended on a park bench while he waited and watched for it to be pinched.

Quite frankly I found this behaviour appalling for a number of reason’s, firstly there was obviously no guarantee the thieves that had been targeting the park were going to steal it, might be some random person who had never committed a crime in their lives, a bit down on their luck, finding the temptation to much, these thing’s do happen. That in itself is bad enough, but know where near as bad as the point I am going to bring up next ( to me anyway ). Occasionally you hear senior police officer’s and politician’s talk about crime prevention, after watching this I realised it was probably a myth. This copper was shamelessly creating his own crime, not solving, creating his own crime, and being congratulated for it on national TV!

This is one of many example’s, of the sort of hypocrisy and blatant dishonesty you find in mainstream society, people who actually think they’re setting the right example, it makes you wonder what they get up to when the camera’s aren’t there. ( I might know ).

Another thing I often go on about is box ticking muppet’s, this saying refers to the manipulation of statistic’s through spreadsheet’s, ( these are dangerous thing’s that can lead people astray, this is another subject that will pop up from time to time in my blog’s ) once this crime has been committed, it will be marked down on a spreadsheet in the crime’s solved column with other figure’s, then presented through the media as progress. It will never mention that this particular crime was invented in the first place.

There are a few reason’s for this sort of behaviour that spring to mind, pressure to perform too target’s, which can often be the source of dishonest behaviour and serving the purpose of the over ambitious, but overall I think it’s so the politician’s have something to tell the public. My honest opinion about policing is that it shouldn’t involve targets, they should just be able to focus on catching the right people, let thing’s take there natural course, because if they get it wrong, the cost is people’s lives.

In more extreme circumstances some individuals would rather lie than admit they were wrong, trying to hide their incompetence and waist of the tax payers money and in the process destroying somebodies life rather than admitting they’re wrong ( something that may or may not be effecting my own life, something else I will be writing about in conjunction with my mental health problems ).

I think that all our service’s NHS, Fire Brigade suffer from this sub-culture ( big business, the money sector and political world are rife with it, I think to the point that if you are not prepared to act in this way you probably become an outcast ) and the end result is extremely damaging and dangerous for the general public and the individual’s that represent these services, instead of being able to do the job’s they’re paid for, we end up with services that basically create figure’s to make the general public think everything is ok when it clearly isn’t.

I will leave that their for now.

SPORT’S, CHEATING, AND ROLE MODEL’S .

Personally, I love my sport as I’m sure million’s if not billion’s of other people do worldwide, but unfortunately, is another thing that is effected by the succeed at all cost’s and backward thinking sub-culture, especially, in my opinion, top flight football and athletics, and in turn can effect the way people think in everyday life. I’m aware there are problems in other sports but I feel I can make my points with these two.

Before I proceed on this subject, I am aware that there are plenty of sport’s person’s and athlete’s around the world that succeed because they show the right dedication and are built to do thing’s other people can’t do.

So first up for the imaginary kick in the ball’s is football ( I’m not going to go on about FIFA  or players wages those situation’s speak for their selves ). As I have stated in a previous blog I am a life long Tottenham Hotspur and England supporter and really love the game, but am constantly disappointed by the amount of diving, simulation and general cheating that goes on these day’s, and is accepted as something that just happens.

This obviously isn’t a new subject, but that in itself perfectly illustrates the point about people becoming naturalised to something that is wrong until your thought process is reversed. Human nature being what it is there is always going to be some sort of random, negative aspect at time’s, but this situation has gone on unchecked for sometime and one of the other most disappointing thing’s about this topic is the blasé attitude shown by some of the pundit’s, who like some of the main perpetrator’s are role models to many supporter’s including a lot of children.

This situation needs to be addressed by the governing bodies and the referee’s more strictly and consistently, one referee I was impressed with was Anthony Taylor who reffed the Arsenal v Chelsea cup final, when it come down to crunch he made the correct decision and sent Victor Moses off for simulation. I believe that it was a second bookable offence, but in my opinion that sort conduct deserves a straight red. After the game he was congratulated for his actions by Alan Shearer and there was a discussion between himself and the other pundit’s about a stricter approach next season, let’s hope so.

When I look at the overall situation it appears that the governing bodies and some referee’s ( who all need to grow some testicles ) are to gutless to stand up to some of the bigger club’s and their superstars. I remember when the FA tried to implement the ten yard rule from rugby into football but didn’t succeed because ( apparently ) it wasn’t compatible. In my opinion that is complete S@#%, it didn’t succeed because you didn’t have the balls to see it through. Hopefully this will not be the case this time.

Athletics carries a lot of national pride, especially where the Olympics are involved, it is always good to finish near the top of the medals table which Great Britain has done on the last couple of occasion’s, for a small country we punch above our weight and in my opinion when a country does well in the Olympics it gives it a stronger identity.

On a negative note it’s no secret that athletics has a drug cheat problem, which generally is down to the individual but my focus is on the alleged, wide spread drug problem Russia has and it’s obvious desperation for that strong image at all cost’s. Ever since I was a boy, Russia ( then the Soviet Union ) had a reputation for using performance enhancing drug’s, if this is the case, and this isn’t just about Russia this is about human nature in general, just like the misrepresentation of figure’s and the acceptance of widespread cheating in football that I have written about, what is the purpose of such mass deceptions other than to mislead everyone despite the long term destructive consequences, the answer is short term success at all cost’s, that I think you will find in every corner of human society, and appears to be a never ending cycle of crap that ordinary people have to put up with.

 

AND FINALLY! 

Human error is inevitable in all walks of life, as is, with some individuals, dishonest and greedy behaviour, unfortunately we seem to live in a world that doesn’t want to acknowledge it at times, this has had catastrophic consequences, especially in banking and politics. I think that if there was a little more understanding when mistakes are made we might avert the disasters that effects everyone’s lives, as far as dishonest and greedy behaviour goes I find it laughable when I see those adverts about benefit fraud depicting an ordinary bloke, working and signing on ( which obviously is against the law ) which some people have to do just to make ends meet, whilst at the same time we have legalised thieves defrauding the banking and investment sector costing billions, generally getting away with it, ( I have assumed the one’s who end up in court like the politician’s who get caught fiddling their expenses are the one’s nobody else liked ) getting bailed out with our tax money, which could be spent on many other things, and to top it off awarding themselves bonuses out of it.

I’m glad I got that out of my system. For now anyway, I’ve been going on about some of these things for years.

 

I am far from perfect myself, how else do you end up with the word pig in your nickname and while I believe the right example can be set, I personally don’t believe in role models, I think people should learn to be responsible for their own actions from an early age, and the consequences that comes with it, good or bad.

Quite frankly like every other person on the planet I’m a complete f@#!ing hypocrite in one way or another, but I honestly feel that if some of these behavioural habits aren’t addressed with the way the world’s population is growing, the human race is in serious trouble.

Well, time to put the soapbox away, for now anyway.

THE PIG.