[Rant] We lack accountability in almost everything
I am fed up here as I don't see accountability anywhere. There was a Telugu Movie starring Mahesh Babu where he being CM says, in foreign, people are responsible and accountable and they made their lives beautiful. How amazing, right? I truly resonate with that thought
We lack accountability in everything we do.
- if something goes right, it's us, if wrong, it's them!
- We don't hold our govt politicians on their promises, on delivering things of value
- Companies go on screwing us, we don't give a damn. Refunds are processed without timelines, cases in country are backlogged for years and years
- We cannot even keep our cities clean, our air pure and our water drinkable and we are least bothered by it
- We cannot maintain our own infrastructure like Buses, railways, trains. We fucking are stealing mugs from railway toilets due to which it's chained (wtf!)
We don't want responsibility and no one should question us.
How are we really supposed to grow?
Stringent laws in place helps with accountability of companies who at all times think how can I squeeze more money from people and screw them
Accountability keeps everyone in check.
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We can achieve that in single tenure if every minister/politician has a master's degree or a PhD
A lot of things here just needs a mentality change. You don't need masters degree to be accountable.
Are we willing to lose power from our hands or the feeling that we can get away with things? Are we ready to say - hold me accountable for any wrongdoing? Are we ready to say - these are the laws, CBI, ED etc aren't caged parrots. No one is above the law, everyone no matter what would be accountable for their actions.
And we needn't even go towards govt first, let's just think about ourselves, are we accountable? Do we deliver on things we promise? Do we apologize that we couldn't deliver? Do we own our mistakes? Do we think we are accountable to our managers, friends, relationships, clients etc etc
Too much of accountability is bad, also it's not that real
In my case, I always try to do my best, but not investing much about others.
Start with yourself :) and slowly involve others
Yes, that's correct. But how do you involve others? We cannot force anyone on it.
First do yourself:) that’s more difficult
Make accountability “cool”. I can see 2k kids are doing it pretty well. One of the traits, I like about them.
Can you explain a bit more. I am sure a lot of people are unaware of this
I don’t know how can I explain more as it is simple. Anyway, When so called “cool kids” does something, everyone starts doing it. It becomes a trend. Imagine a bunch of cool kids stops littering and if someone else starts littering it is considered uncool. It spreads quickly. I see 2k kids are more into anti-littering, anti-peeing in public. They want to treat animals with kindness. I see a lot of them eat clean. No tea and coffee, proper intake of food. Though they have their own dumb stuff going on, they get on with these trait easily.
Majority of Indian population is living like beggars with 10k monthly salary, they can't think beyond lunch and dinner. Even rich think that they can pollute as much as they want because there is always less fortunate slaves who can take care of all the mess. The ultimate result is that the country is Vishwa Guru in the minds of people while the reality is just the opposite.
It doesn't take money to uphold accountability.
I personally know so many people including myself who aren't accountable in a lot of things like even basic things of keeping promises no matter what
Physiologically Indians are trained to follow orders and work under colonial masters. People here want to run away from any accountability unless there is a fear of punishment. Democracy hasn't helped because people are ready to treat politicians as God and don't ask for accountability even from the government which they elect. Similarly in their daily life they want to act without any accountability. It's a cultural thing now.
Take case of Japan , post dropping of atomic bomb, an entire nation pulled it's socks up to rebuild their nation completely devasted economically physically and demographically. Each and every individual in that country decided to do whatever it takes through their actions to rebuild their country and lo and behold in just 30 years they surpassed their devastater in innovation in most areas and consultants from US visited Japanese factories to imitate their innovations. The bullet train or shinkansen has not had any accident till it's inception in 1967 and it's only being late by 5 sec few years back when entire managment apologised to the nation. That's a national character of Japan. Then do we need an event like dropping of nuclear bomb to rebuild India, perhaps not but we atleast need a good jolt to wake us up from this slumber! If each and every individual of this country can emulate Japanese people , India would actually be a superpower by 2047
Thank you @Fallenangel86 . You truly resonate with what I wanted to convey. Aligned completely to what you wrote❤️
Relax man, it's the same everywhere. Ever been outside India? it's the same problems that India has just on a smaller scale because we're a billion+ people.
I'm not saying it's right, but it is what it is. If you can do something about it, do it.
Yes I have been outside. I have seen Singapore close by. I have seen the way people function there, I have seen how japanese function as well.
I have seen accountability up close. I enjoy that. I feel safe enough there.
And please, let's not bring in Population into everything. Accountability is a mentality. You bifurcate people to cities to town to your own house/society and see how many people are really accountable?
Just FYI - Singapore is more population dense /m2 than India They were at brink of extinction but they decided to do something about it and made their lives beautiful as seen today
I agree every country has their own set of problems, but doesn't mean that they arent accountable.
You want a prime example of accountability of politicians?
- Norwegian politician fined for party during covid. In general, Just a warning issued for violation, but police there held a public servant accountable as they are elected representative
- https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/09/norway-prime-minister-erna-solberg-fined-breaking-covid-rules-birthday
Even in a century it won't change, indian crowd has no cognitive empathy at scale, there's no question of accountability. The mantra is आग लगे बस्ती में ...
Primary reason in my opinion is lack of setup to catch and jail offenders, so there's no deterent or consequences.
Just to quantify the situation. in hinterlands one can even get away with murder in India for as little as a lakh rupees, then who cares for rest of "petty" offences.
Just recently a relative was praising the car rental scene in some south east asian country, then concluded India could also have same if people weren't reckless maniacs.
From unflushed toilets and Gutka spits in rajdhani train, to poorly handled baby shit in IndiGo, stinky abandoned washrooms on highway tolls, entitled folks breaking equipment at 5* resorts, pvt + govt alike employees stealing goods from warehouses, extraa drunks patrons wrecking havoc at Imagica, stealing public ev chargers, etc etc countless other incidents are prevelant the reality is no one gives two fucks about wellbeing of the system. Rather it gives pride to offenders because they're not normie chu* following rules.
Let alone putting same living creature in some gora location, have seen change of external behaviour by crowd at very limited selective spots, maybe prestige? this needs to happen at large.
We have more than 1 billion people and everyone is unique
So now you can iterate on 1 billion+ personalities and their deeds there will always be people who are causing trouble for others and people who are doing good.
There will always be someone worse than you can imagine
and at the same time
There will always be someone who is better than you can imagine.
So don't stress about what others do. We ourselves should take responsibilities and show commitment then maybe just one person will get inspired to do the same and that's enough.
If you read the post, you would know, it isn't just about others. I am addressing myself in the "we" category. I feel almost everyone in this country doesn't go via the accountability principles or we don't care enough. If you think you are not one of them, kudos!
And let's not involve population into accountability. Accountability doesn't depend on population, it's a mentality
I don't know why Indians are always in such a hurry. Possibly because the gap in living conditions is so high that anyone at level X is looking up at X+5 and feeling anxious, frustrated and unhappy about his/her present status.
Everyone is trying to find a shortcut to get rich quick because anything else, hard-work, diligence, empathy is never going to be able to push you to +6 level in 20yrs.
But why isn't this a problem in other countries like Japan? How are they so confident and cool with their lifestyles? Maybe because they aren't afraid of the society status. And they know they can survive happily even if they are not reaching +6 level in 20yrs.
But in India, everyone is afraid that if you are not able to climb +6 in 20yrs, you might be downgraded to begging on roads. The fear is real.
So I'd conclude that the root evil is relative poverty, with the abundance of too many opportunities to get rich quick.
Root evil is simply lack of ownership in changing oneself and thereby society to be more accountable. Root evil is giving up on everyone or any hopes of improvement
"lack of ownership in changing oneself" wtf is this bro? I'm inclined to say "root evil is metaphorical sentences that have no connection to real life"
