The Alibi Society
Wasn't me, wasn't there.
We live in a society of excuses for professional and commercial inattention, poor service, and damn-right incompetence.
I know this annoys people when I retaliate by including this page.. If providers choose not to accomodate my recomendations in order to satisfy their own revenge needs, they are the ones with the problem. I will get through as I normally do. By determination to confront incompetence etc.
Living in an Alibi Society: A Catalogue of Pretensions
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- This is a social critique in which the author reveals a society debilitated by the extensive use of alibis, and now anxiously searching for durable values. He describes an "alibi society" as a collective state of mind for finding excuses for equivocation, for taking or not taking action, or finding reasons for failure. He endeavours to explain the use of alibis by examining their sources in widely different areas - education, class, manners, cowardice, intellectuality and the professions.
- Alibis offer powerful and convenient justification for rejecting or carrying out actions-for acts of commission or omission ...
- Alibis are social devices offering cover for acts discharged or for measures that need to be taken or prevented from being carried out.
- In certain recognised circumstances, alibis are fashioned deliberately to exonerate decision makers from direct responsibility, ...
- Alibis are neither good nor bad - though they are certainly not neutral - but take the colouring of the purposes and motives to which they are assigned; always, they serve a specific purpose.
- Sometimes they endeavour to conceal motives of which even their inventor, perhaps, remains unaware, so deep have some alibis eaten into the subconscious mind.
- Read the book.