When Paradise Becomes Hell
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I heard the voice calling for responsibility and accountability. It shouldn’t be an insult for you saying someone is insulting you when that someone is actually asking you to do that which you are supposed to do, of which you are not doing well, refusing to do, or refusing to learn, improve, or grow in that which you are doing, for the good of the thing itself or for the purpose upon which you are employed to do, called upon to fix, direct, or lead. You cannot be insulted for saying someone is insulting you by doing that which is insulting to others, like not doing your job. I heard the voice of righteous indignation crying from exhaustion of people complaining and whining from doing their job or not liking their jobs, or blaming others for their failures or seeing themselves as perpetual victims. What an inverse world, (a voice lamented) in which what actually matters doesn’t really matter anymore, but what matters to the champions of victimhood isn’t the thing at hand that is failing, needing to be fixed, or resolved, but what matters to them is their unhappiness and discomfort about others talking about they not doing their job or refusing to learn, improve, and grow. What society shall we become (the voice laments) when calls for course correction are seen as rebuke or at worse seen as passive aggression? How thin skin, emotionally fragile or emotionally hysterical has a great people become that genuine criticism is met with aggression, threats or hate? You can’t be the greatest by being the weakest of mind or fragile in emotions at the same time? A champion is hardly a crybaby; a leader is always the last to complain or blame; and Complainers are hardly positive resolvers. Hell and Paradise is a procreation of the mind. Responsibility and accountability has a lot to do with living in Paradise or Hell.
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In what victimhood paradise is a great nation leading itself to when champions of responsibility and accountability are seen with reservation or spoken about unkindly? When hell becomes paradise and paradise becomes hell, nobody is responsible or accountable.
Criminals on the contrary are upset not about the crime they commit and how to be remorseful or pay their due, but about the actual victims of the crime, those talking about the crime, and those punishing the criminals for the crimes they commit. When hell becomes paradise and paradise becomes hell, nobody is responsible or accountable, humans live in a society in which a failing parent blames the children; a failing school blames the students; a failing coach blames the players; a failing team blames the supporters; a failing church blames followers for not believing and running away from their faith; politicians blaming the voters for the reasons they can’t deliver on their promises; a leader blaming the economy or a downturn in hope on the voters; a driver blaming sleeping and relaxed passengers for the accidents; humans blaming nature for natural disasters despite the warnings and call for evacuations; the poor blaming the rich for their poverty despites their sloth, idleness, and misused opportunities; the breastfeeding mother blaming the infant for asking for breastmilk; or the Drug Manufacturing Addictive Driven Companies (DMADC) blaming addiction victims for consuming their products in the first place. Paradise becomes Hell when nobody is responsible or accountable.
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When hell becomes paradise and paradise becomes hell, everybody is right and no one is wrong or everybody else is wrong. In such an inverse universe, the captain for fear of accountability will prefer to sink a sinking ship than call for assistance or rescue. In such a victimhood paradise made possible by humans, the maker of the plane blames the pilot of a wreck for a malfunction in the engine; the mayor blames its constituents for his or her incompetence; the warlords blame the war on the victims, an obese person blames the doctor for trying to help; the sugar beverage and Excess Fat Manufacturing Industries (XFMI) blame consumers for their obesity; the general blames the loss war on the soldiers for the lack of equipment, supplies, logistics, or preparedness; the human being blames time for its failures. Dear humans, creatures of blame, always blaming something else for something else. What becomes of such a hell of a society when accountability and responsibility can’t only be the responsibility of others or something else rather than the being itself? A life without responsibility and accountability or owning up to one’s mistakes, failures or shortcomings is a life soon to be vain, pitiful, impoverished, cold, underdeveloped, chaotic, unsafe, insecured, and unhealthy. Owning up and being responsible is a sign of openness, learning, improvement, and growth. Isn’t it true that the being of the being itself is coded in LIG – Learning, Improvement, and Growth? Live to accept thy responsibilities, else life is not impactful but spend in endless battles, fights, quarrels, frustrations, and mistrust. The buck must stop where it deserves, else there is none to lead, but hell to procreate on earth. Hell and Heaven is on the mind. Make manifest through your deeds or missions.
Philosopher Prince Israel Zaar 11222025
