Why is There So Much Apathy and Laziness in Canada ?
This here writer contents that human beings by nature are not
basically lazy. Look at babies and little children. They are energetic and
curious, and full of life. Human beings by nature have a willingness to work,
and do things.
Then why oh why is there so much apathy and laziness in the
nation of Canada ? There is a stunningly high level of public apathy here. Why
have too many in Canada fallen into a collective lethargic, apathetic stupour ?
You see it everywhere. Obesity is a growing concern. Yet look at all the empty
sports fields - empty ball diamonds, empty tennis courts, that a person sees
constantly. Where are the people - are they too busy to go out there and throw a
football, or kick around a soccer ball, or play games with the kids - or are
they just too damn lazy or what ?
Voter turnout in elections particularly at the municipal level
are very low. In the last Alberta provincial election in 2008 there was only a
41 % voter turnout. Are too many Canadian voters simply too apathetic, and lazy
to keep up with the issues, and take a few minutes to vote ? Are most
Canadians political illiterates and proud of it ?
You see it on the job site - there are too many who just want
to get a soft, easy job - and leave the heavy lifting to others (who probably in
their opinion are too dumb to get a soft job like them). There seems to be this
all too pervasive attitude on the job site by way too many, of trying to finagle
themselves into a soft cushy position, or trying to manipulate things so they
get the easy work. Taking advantage of others on the job, and getting them to do
the hard work - while these same people smirk and silently laugh at those who
are willing to do the hard jobs - and consider such persons as being dumbbells.
Why is it that those who do the hard and dirty jobs in Canada are too often labeled
as being dumb, or uneducated ? Why do so many look down upon those who
work with their hands, and are prepared to get a little bit dirty and sweat a
bit ? Why are too many hard workers in the workshops of Canada being
taken advantage of by fellow employees and employers ? Why are such persons
labeled as being stupid ? Since when was it stupid to be diligent, and be an
energetic, hard worker ? Well in the Canada of today in 2008 that is where
we are sadly headed.
If you don't believe me regarding the work ethic of too many
here in Canada (and I'll remind you I do live in Calgary, Alberta and we here
are certainly not exempt from this problem) then would you believe the comments
of the former Premier of Quebec and former leader of the Parti Quebecois -
Lucien Bouchard. He made some interesting comments concerning his home Province,
but I feel much of what he said could apply to a large percentage of Canada.
Quotes by Lucien Bouchard:
''We need to work more. We don't work enough. We work less than Ontarians,
and infinitely less than the Americans,'' Lucien Bouchard
told the TVA network, adding that Quebecois are creating a difficult future
for themselves.
''What I said is that Quebecers work less than Ontarians and Americans, and
that the best way to create more resources to sustain the social programs we
are so proud of, is to work more.
''If you told me I'd soon be pushing my last breath, I'd take the
opportunity to say what I said because it is the truth. You can't escape the
truth, and I like Quebecers too much to not tell them the truth.''
“Here in Quebec, it's like being in this big plane,” he said. “It's
warm, comfortable and flying smoothly with no problems. But when you look out
the pilot's window, there is a mountain there at 20,000 feet in altitude. . .
. We are going to hit the mountain. It is certain we are going to crash into
it.”
“It isn't because Albertans own oil that they pay cheaper gasoline prices
than others at the pump,” he said. “Here we have Hydro-Québec buying
electricity for 10 cents and then selling it to us for 10 cents. Come on, that
doesn't make sense.”
Too many Canadians are not even willing to make the effort to
keep the birth rate up - instead they rely upon the government to increase
immigration. Are there too many women and men who are just plain too lazy to
even make the effort to get married, get mated and have sex and reproduce
? Isn't it a natural instinct within normal human beings to reproduce ?
Why are abortion rates so high - are too many Canadians simply too lazy to rear
children - too much work or what ? Is killing the kids just the easy way
out, or what ?
We are living in a nation which claims to be Christian, yet
most Canadian adults are Biblical illiterates. Are they simply too lazy to read
their Bibles or what ? There are no shortages of Bibles you know. Too many
are Biblical illiterates and proud of it. Proud of being uneducated ?
This here writer is prepared to be generous (this may be one
of my weaknesses you know) - and say that the overwhelming majority of Canadians
are not lazy by nature. Instead I feel the problem has something to do with the nanny state
and socialism. Canada is a socialist society.
The Problem Is Socialism - and the Nanny State
Every nation or distinct society has a collective orientation.
Some nations like Canada are more diverse, while others like Japan for example
are more homogeneous.
So within such a diverse and geographically enormous nation
like Canada - there can be more than one overriding collective orientation.
This here writer in his humble opinion believes that there are two overarching
collective orientations within the larger society in Canada and these are
specifically the following:
- Money and material goods.
- Socialism
There are subcultures within such a huge and diverse nation
like Canada, but it is not within the scope of this article to deal with these
today. Instead we shall within this article concentrate specifically upon one of
the main orientations of the collective Canadian society - specifically
socialism.
The Collective Canadian Societal Disease of Socialism
Socialism in Canada has robbed too many Canadians of their
initiative, robbed them of their independence, robbed them of their willingness
to work, robbed them of their taking personal responsibility for things, and
robbed them of their dignity and self-respect. Socialism has robbed them of
their pride, because socialism doesn't approve of individual success. Socialism
instead approves of the mediocre middle of the road dull gray. Sticking out and
being different is frowned upon. You can even see it in the colours of the
clothes the people wear in public in Canada - gray, blue or brownish are the
norm - not the bright colours. Not anything that really stands out too
much.
Socialism in Canada has caused too many Canadians to always
look to Big Brother and the Nanny State to solve their problems, and to take
care of things - from cradle to grave.
Socialism is destroying Canada and Canadians.
In a socialist system individual success is not valued - in
fact it too often is frowned upon. For example at school during gym classes (at
least where my daughter goes to school) - they too often frown
upon keeping score in sports activities during regular gym classes. Why on earth would anyone play a sport
or game without keeping score ? Well in a socialist society - keeping score
might offend those who just are not very good at the game. Therefore such a
system tends to kill personal initiative, and destroy the personal initiative of our
best and brightest. In a socialist system the best and brightest - the gifted -
have few places to go. They are often bored to death, and may just tune out. A
good number may leave and go to other countries like the United States - where
excellence is still supposedly rewarded (that is what they say at least). Personal individual excellence is not
encouraged enough in a socialist system, which values more things like getting along,
and working together with others harmoniously. So being too bright or
too competent, or too smart - offends too many in a society, which tends or
gravitates towards the bland and mediocre.
Socialism and the nanny state has practically destroyed most
of the
native people in Canada. Too many natives have this attitude of entitlement, and
the attitude of always blaming others like government and the white man for
their problems. Instead of taking responsibility and ownership of their
problems, too many aboriginals on reserves and elsewhere look to government to
solve their problems. And they are supported in taking this approach by a vast
array of so-called experts - like social workers, lawyers, social scientists,
and political leaders - who feed upon the natives and get their living off of
the stunningly expensive and complicated bureaucracy that surrounds, imprisons
and feeds off the aboriginals.
Socialism in Canada is a very serious impediment or obstacle
to tackling so many problems we face. This is because the socialist system tends
towards viewing social problems as being caused more by the society,
and social environment rather than caused by individual behavior.
Therefore the socialist nanny state doesn't encourage too much individuals
taking ownership and responsibility over problems. Instead the system
encourages people to look to government and big brother for solutions. Sure ones
environment does have a big influence over us when we are small and vulnerable
and not in control of anything much. However, people do grow up, and they can
change. We are not helpless victims of our past, once we grow up and are adults.
We can change for the better, and we can take control over our lives. One way we
can do this is by resisting actively the intrusive, controlling nanny state, and
fighting for individual freedom.
To illustrate the fruits of socialism gone mad take the great
left wing socialist sacred cow of socialized medicine in Canada - namely the
Canadian Medicare System. Too many Canadians look to the Health Care
System to take care of their health - rather than taking ownership and
responsibility for their own health. Sure we need public health care in serious
matters where we as individuals cannot care for ourselves, and can't afford the
costs personally of access to the specialized equipment, and specialized
caregivers - like when involved in serious accidents, cases of serious diseases
and so on. However, the system does not really encourage or support a preventative
based approach to Health Care here in Canada. Today in 2008 the costs of the
socialized Health Care System in Canada are out of control and unsustainable. It
just cannot continue - something has to give.
Another illustration is a recent tragic incident that
happened in Saskatchewan. I will relate the story to you first, which describes
how the tragedy unfolded. Then I will give you some comments on the matter. I
have gotten the details from over the internet, and do not have any personal
involvement with the story, or in reporting it. This is a terribly heart
wrenching, sad story.
The RCMP say an aboriginal Father - Christopher Pauchay was taking his daughters, ages 1 and 3, to another
house on the Yellow Quill First Nation reservation on Tuesday night January 29,
2008 in extremely cold weather (in the -30's) when due to drunkenness he blacked
out. He was found and taken to a hospital, but it wasn't until about eight hours
later he mentioned his kids.
The 1-year-old's body was found hours later and the 3-year-old was found
Wednesday.
The children's grandmother, Pearl Pauchay, said the girls belong to her
25-year-old son and his common-law wife. "He was carrying them.
But he was drinking and he must have blacked out," she said. "That's
what he said when we went to visit him in the hospital."
Christopher, 24, was drinking heavily Monday night, his elder sister, Bernita
Pauchay, said. His wife Tracey stormed out after a fight earlier, and Pauchay
was left home alone with the kids. The day before he had purchased a case of
beer and two bottles of whisky.
"My brother was so intoxicated," Bernita, 35,
said. "I don't know how big the bottles were, but when he drank whisky he
would get real loaded."
That night, something happened with Santana that scared
Christopher. She may have been sick, Bernita said, or something else may have
gone wrong.
"I'm not sure what happened with the baby but he
said something was wrong with her," she said.
This apparently caused Mr. Pauchay to try and run
through the snow to his sister's house, maybe because he wanted to get a ride
down to the hospital in Kelvington, and had no phone in his house. He never got
there.
His tracks were left in the snow. "You could
tell he couldn't see where he was running because he was running right through
high snowbanks. You could see the times that he fell," Bernita said.
"He remembers carrying both of the babies, but he
was so intoxicated he doesn't really remember anything else," she said.
"He remembers holding both of the babies in his
arms and falling all over in the snow. At some point he must have fallen so hard
that he dropped one of them and he kept running with the other one, and he was
just so scared that he just kept going. He didn't realize that he had dropped
one of the girls."
He lost the other girl as well. Four hours later, around
5 a.m. Tuesday, Pauchay crawled through the snow to a neighbour's front step.
His hand frozen, he banged on the door. He was incoherent, the neighbours
told his family, suffering from hypothermia and frostbite and still under the
influence of alcohol. They called an ambulance, whose crew called the RCMP, and
Pauchay was brought to Kelvington's hospital by 5:30 a.m.
It wasn't until eight hours later that anyone noticed
his daughters were missing. At 1:30 p.m. Pauchay asked hospital staff if his
children were all right !
Later that afternoon, a tuft of dark, curly hair was
spotted in a snow bank on the reserve. The RCMP recovered the body of little
Santana that day. With the cold and blowing snow it took another 24 hours to
recover Kaydence's body, which lay about 45 yards from the spot where her sister
was found.
" The entire reserve was in mourning
Wednesday," Yellow Quill Chief Robert Whitehead said.
Media vehicles streamed out of the reserve after Chief Robert Whitehead
decided it was time to dim the national spotlight on the story to give his
community time to grieve. He asked journalists to stay away until
four days after the funeral.
Earlier in the day, there was an emotional plea from Nippi, who is one of
the children's grandmothers. She told reporters her daughter and
son-in-law were "the best parents" and have not been treated fairly in
the media.
"They've been 'misportrayed,'" she said. She also said the role of
the community should be looked at. "We don't guide
our children enough. We don't guide them because they get into alcohol, they get
into drugs, they get into pills. You know, it's a community problem, not just
one. It's everybody's problem here."
Nippi also said she should take some responsibility herself for what
happened.
"I feel sort of to blame a little bit 'cause I didn't guide my daughter
enough when she needed me the most," she said.
Guy Lonechild, a vice-chief with the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian
Nations, said it was distressing to hear the desperation in Nippi's voice, but
he hopes the entire country pays attention to her words.
"I think there's time for voices to be heard and I think all of
Saskatchewan really needs to stand together with the families," he said.
"I was worried about my grandchildren. I did not want them to leave this
world in vain," Nippi said, her slight frame trembling against the cold.
"I hope there's change now that happens - a lot of changes like no alcohol
and counseling and stuff to be brought in here. Our old teachings should be
brought back."
Concerns are being raised about alcohol use on reserves after the frozen
bodies of two little girls were found on Saskatchewan's Yellow Quill First
Nation.
June Draude, the province's First Nations minister, said
Thursday there are a lot of questions to be answered about the deaths of
Kaydance and Santana Pauchay.
Ms. Draude said Yellow Quill is a loving community but
she acknowledged that there are several social issues, including addictions,
that have to be dealt with on the reserve.
My Comments
Well obviously the family has suffered severely here, especially the poor two
little girls - now dead and gone.
This tragedy is just being quietly coved up, and it shouldn't be. This
is a national shame, and should not be quietly laid to rest, like the two poor
little girls have been - in a far, far too early grave. How utterly tragic and
senseless. Just imagine how much suffering these children went through
struggling in the deep snow and terribly cold weather, with only very light clothes
on.
I notice very little personal responsibility being shown by anyone here -
except maybe the Grandma Nippi. Of course I am not privy to all the details and
players, and I'm just going by the few articles I read on the subject, and on
some of the things I heard on TV. I am not up to date on recent developments if
any on the case.
This tragedy portrays in glaring, stark terms the evil fruits of the Canadian
societal orientation around socialist and the nanny state - where individuals
are not encouraged to take personal responsibility for their actions. Instead
there is the same old tired out, ridiculous call for more social programs, more
government intervention, more treatment programs for alcoholism, more counseling
by more parasitic social workers, and there is the implied message that somehow
the white man is responsible here.
You know I am a so-called white man (but I regard myself just as much and big
a native of this land as any aboriginal) and I never in any way forced
Christopher Pauchay to drink all that booze, and get drunk out of his mind - so
damn drunk that he does something so bloody stupid as taking his half naked
toddlers out into -30 degree temperatures. Who is forcing these people to drink
that stuff ? You know I used to drink a lot myself, but I could handle it. I
have stopped drinking alcohol now for about 12 years (except for some wine on
the Passover), because I felt the beer was harming my health. I just went cold
turkey and stopped. People like Christopher Pauchay can do the same thing - just
take personal responsibility and stop drinking booze - if you can't handle it,
if it is harming your health and relationships, and if you can't stop until you
are dead drunk. Just do it - just stop drinking booze period. It may be a tough addiction to handle, but basically
people who for whatever reason cannot handle booze - my suggestion is to just go
cold turkey - just stay away from it if you can't handle it. Take personal
responsibility - you don't need a bunch of social workers, or government
intervention, or for your reserve to ban the stuff. Just do it yourself and
stop.
The overarching problem is Canada's orientation around socialism, and the
promotion of the nanny state. Like I told you dear reader - socialism is robbing
Canadians of their taking personal responsibility for things, and
robbed them of their dignity and self-respect. There is this attitude among too
many natives of always blaming others like government and the white man for
their problems. Instead of taking responsibility and ownership of their
problems, too many aboriginals on reserves and elsewhere look to government to
solve their problems, or they play the blame game.
Christopher Pauchay was recently sentenced in early 2009 to a jail
term - I believe a three year one for criminal negligence. There was a
native sentencing circle first - and the recommendation was he not be
jailed, but required to do service within the community. However, the
court has the final say here, and there was a trial and Pauchay is now
behind bars. He apparently displayed little remorse and did not seem to be
willing to take full responsibility for the tragic death of his two
daughters.
Another illustration is the recent (early April 2008) strangling
death of a Calgary toddler, two-year-old Preet Dhami, after she was
choked by the dangling window blind cords in her family's home.
The girl at the time was at home with her uncle and grandparents.
"You can expect parents to have a certain amount of responsibility, but
you need society to provide protection," said Dr. Louis Francescutti, an
emergency room physician at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton and a
professor at the University of Alberta's faculty of medicine.
"You have to transfer the responsibility back onto society. We're
Neanderthals when it comes to children's safety," Francescutti said.
My Comments
Once again the parents have suffered a great deal, but especially the little
girl - now dead.
Dr. Louis Francescutti was reported as saying that society is to blame for
the death of this toddler. I am part of this society, so according to
Francescutti I am partly responsible for the child's death. This is ridiculous.
I do not even know the family yet alone the child. So how am I to blame
?
This is just another example of the evils of socialism. You know if everyone
is responsible - then no one is. If everyone owns it - this means no one owns
it. This is just a convenient out - blame society - individuals are not held
accountable - if society is to blame.
In a socialist, over regulated, over governed, and
bureaucratic country like Canada (where big government and big business
reign) it can be socially dangerous to display too much personal
initiative, and free thinking. Socialism represses free thinking. Socialism
punishes you for thinking creatively , and for thinking outside of the box.
Socialism encourages collective, herd like, lemming like thinking. Therefore
socialism by its very nature is a self-defeating destructive system, because it
prevents people from coming up with creative innovative solutions to our
problems. Instead it encourages citizens to keep banging their collective heads against
the same old problems, and keep looking to the nanny state to solve our
problems. Therefore the constant and tiresome call for more government programs
to tackle social problems, which just mean more and more taxes to feed a ever
growing government bureaucracy.
Socialism is destroying initiative in Canada, because it
effectively punishes you for working hard. The more the ordinary worker makes -
the more taxes they pay. So it gets to the point where it doesn't even make any
sense to work more or longer hours, or work overtime to get ahead - because then
you will just fall into a higher tax bracket, and have much of your hard earned
wages stolen from you through higher taxes to feed the ever growing bureaucratic
nanny state. I personally know a guy who told me he used to work very much
overtime at his job site, but has stopped doing so. Why ? Well he calculated
that after he factored in all the extra taxes he was paying - he was really only
making about $ 1.00 an hour. So why put in all that extra work, when the
socialist nanny system siphons off most of it just to feed the insatiable maw of
the bloated socialist nanny state ?
Socialism in Canada is repressing and suppressing the natural
instinct of most normal human beings in Canada to reproduce and have a family.
Many adults in Canada have consciously decided on not having children, because
they can see how intrusive and meddlesome the nanny state is here in Canada
towards families. They can see how the nanny state wants to be the parent, and
how the nanny state works to undermine the authority of parents in regards to
their children. So why open yourself up to government meddling - why expose
yourself and make yourself vulnerable to an intrusive bureaucracy, which has the
power to seize almost any child in Canada they want - for any kind of hatched up
bogus reason they can think of ? Why put yourself through the mental
anguish of possibly exposing yourself to the corrupt government officials at
Child Services - when you have children ? Why have kids when there is
almost no incentive within the socialist system to have kids ? Little
wonder birth rates in Canada have fallen to record low levels in recent
years.
Socialism in Canada encourages too many men to be sexually
irresponsible. Therefore too many men (especially black men) have taken the irresponsible
approach of " Lov'em and Leav'em " in regards to women. We have had a
large increase in the numbers of single mothers in Canada in our recent
history. These so-called men jump in the sack with one loose woman after
another, and then don't have the gumption, gonads, and courage to take care of
the children. They often just leave when the woman gets pregnant.
Such male creeps and bums receive little sanction from anyone - and the nanny
state too often just picks up the costs of rearing the children through various
social welfare programs. Socialism doesn't hold individuals accountable for
their actions enough, but instead tends to look to society for causes of
individual behavior. You know the phony socialist slogan " It takes a
village to raise a child " so there is little incentive in socialist
Canada for the man to stick around and care for the child, since it takes a
village to raise a child, and all they figure they need do is the copulation
part. Then let society take care of the kid.
On the other hand it is an entirely different story for
sexually responsible men. Such Fathers in Canada are too often treated
just like junk - just as penises and wallets. In socialist Canada the system
supports feminist ideology, which is in conspiracy against Fatherhood. The
courts, particularly the Family Court is stacked against men - the system
especially hates a genuine Christian Father, who believes in following the
Biblical laws regarding family. The sexually responsible male is an easy target
for the intrusive nanny state, since they stick around, and make commitments. So
the system comes down on them with both boots, while the irresponsible male
creeps and bums just go their merry, shiftless ways - looking to society to foot
the bill for their irresponsible behavior.

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" Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and
enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the
imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that
ideal into practice. "
quote by Arnold Toynbee - British Historian 1889 - 1975
"Apathy is a mental state in which the sufferer lacks the desire, will
or energy to engage in any activity, whether intellectual or physical. It is
variously called indifference, boredom, lassitude, languor, listlessness,
laziness, lethargy or inertia. It may be a symptom of mental disorder. It is first
alienation of the self from the world and then self-alienation. Finally it is
withdrawal from all participation in the care of others and care of oneself. Collectively,
apathy may be expressed in social, economic, political or ideological paralysis,
with all the available energy for change locked up in the institutions, systems
and structures of society."
Definition of Apathy
Apathy can be defined as an absence or suppression of emotion, feeling,
concern or passion. Further, apathy is an indifference to things generally found
to be exciting or moving.