Have you noticed our society has become enamored with placing blame? If you’re late for work, it isn’t your fault because of traffic, stoplights not sequenced, and the car in front of you refusing to go the speed limit. 

On the national scale, everything that goes wrong becomes a battlefield between parties attempting to assign blame. Are interest rates too high? It’s his fault. Are jobs declining while crime is climbing? It’s their fault. If my team failed to win the big game, it was clearly the fault of the coach, the referees and the media.  

It is clear we believe every effect has a personal, knowable and blamable cause, and it’s turning us into a crabby bunch of curmudgeons whose best conversational skill is placing blame.  

Now, I’ll admit many things flow from human carelessness, stupidity, laziness and error. I can also say it is important to determine where human negligence or ineptitude occurs so we can fix things and put safeguards in place. But our national focus on........

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