Anyway imagine then the days when the people had no running water or electricity and nobody came to collect the rubbish.
For the plain reason that everything we complain about not having was not around for most of the history of mankind. Roads? You mean that long narrow uneven strip of dirt that runs between vast expanses of wilderness?
“Yeah we just can’t get the municipality to fix dam potholes,” said nobody in the ancient world ever. Your objection would be that we pay taxes right? Well, so did they.
Sure people did some extreme stuff because they did not like their government. It’s called ‘Revolution’. Well I’m glad that you rhetorically asked me that question. The thing is their beef was a lot bigger – I am talking all you can eat T-bone steak! My metaphor is ironic because it was stuff like starvation, and war. Imagine if a revolutionary gathered a posy and started a riot and after fallout of property damage, and a public execution or two, everyone finds out it was because a dirt road was uneven.
Sure these problems are an issue that highlights bigger concerns or that leads to loss of life, but I have found from the countless phone calls I receive during the week that people in eMalahleni have a natural ability to exaggerate any problem. Ask a local to report a flat tyre and there will be an army platoon, a fire truck, two emergency helicopters and at least one national newspaper with in 20 minutes. See I am good at it too!
My point is that we should be making a woo-haa about road safety, but we don’t because no one likes getting a ticket from a traffic officer, we should be throwing our toys out the cot, when our rivers, and natural surrounds become a pollution central but we don’t because if it is not in my garden on in my fancy filtration system then it is not my problem. There are bigger things going on in this town. You don’t have to look far to find it.
