Somebody Must Be To Blame

There are people whose response to any diffculty is to look for someone to blame. -Not to solve the problem, stop the bleeding or change direction, but to find whose fault it is. Somehow that gives them considerable satisfaction, even if they are the ones who are suffering or losing out because of the difficulty. Having someone to blame is more important to them than finding positive responses to the situation itself. Righteous indignation makes up for everything else.

It's not that I think examing a problem to understand how it happened is always a waste of time. The opposite is often true. It's important to recognize how a problem started, what fed it so that it became bigger, why it now has the stature it does. But the reason is so that change can happen so the problem won't be repeated. -Not so there then can be a kind of self-satisfaction now that we know who to blame.