Increasing amount of young and older people just bluntly dumping their garbage from their cars to the streets?
Massive amounts of garbage revealing itself under the melting snow everywhere?
People, even older ones nowadays, stopping to chat in doorways ignoring everybody else?
Too big amount of faults in buildings and houses a.k.a. the new default is complain to get what you bought?
Needing to get your car re-serviced after the service since there is something that didn't get fixed?
Endless meetings with no real decisions?
Or selling something with a "ageless quality" promise but failing to live accordingly?
Answer? Not being accountable individually of our actions to others and community/society.
We are loosing rapidly the sense of being accountable for all our actions to others. Besides the obligation we have also lost the value of accountability (being able to trust on other rational mutually benefitial behavior).
Based on everyday evidence, too many individuals have lost it already in way too many areas of life. Too few are teaching it to their children?
Companies are loosing it increasingly - in their operations and in their marketing. It's enough to just get things sold even if (when) it means empty value-phrases. And wow what an amount of empty corporate and brand value phrases we have nowadays. And it's not anymore even the golden age of corporate slogans... Big companies and brands can get away from their "lies" because we tend to not believe them anyways? But for small companies acting in a limited and competed market, value accountability is still a life-liner. Especially in this digitally socially connected era = fairly many people will hear an individual complain and peer-valuations weight a lot in plentifullness of everything.
With all out culture, science, high tech, education and "civilized ways" is still so that only massive crisis drive us accountable again? If so - depressive.
ps. as an after burn (from writing to Ville's blog) - could we as an ultra small nation have an edge if we would lift accountability back to it's old value?
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