Entered: in vim on gemini pda | Date: 20210807
I have been ill at ease with "safety culture" for nigh on 20 years. It never sat right with me. Not just because corporations do not truly care about us, that point is obvious - they only have profit motive. The underlying items that generated my feeling are: cowardice, emasculation, and subjugation.
Heroes and heroines of the past did not have a safety culture. They did not "play it safe." Kingdoms, empires, countries, and nations did not hold that safety was a virtue; that we should, as is often articulated in modern corporate safety videos and literature, "be selfish, do it for your self - your safety is your number one priority." The old world was carved by risk takers. Risking ones' safety in the pursuit of a goal, or in the preservation of others was seen as virtuous.
You may be thinking to yourself, "well, soldiers, law enforcement, and even medical professionals still do this." No. You are wrong. The culture of safety worship has wrapped its tendrils about these vocations as well. These are not the respective workplaces of yesteryear.
It is cowardly to eschew all risk. It is cowardly to selfishly only think of your own safety. This has been the stance of great cultures throughout the ages - the Greeks, Romans, Germans, Britons, etc.
It is feminine to avoid risk. A requirement of modern employment is to be forced to relinquish a portion of your masculinity. Society requires both yin and yang. The Chinese acknowledged this, just as the Hermeticists, and just about every other classical spirituality and philosophy did as well. The modern west, however, has decided to abandon masculinity altogether and morph into an extreme unbalanced feminine only hellscape. Men are to become poor facsimiles of women and women into feminized mimeographs of men. Men are encouraged to behave in very feminine ways, to be overly emotional, to prioritize their own well-being instead of forming and taking care of a family, to stymie all fight instinct. While women are encouraged to disdain all outward feminine traits: to despise bearing children, to pursue careers outside the home, to dominate traditionally male fields. All the while pushing emotionalism and feminine thinking as the only option in society.
The masses have been enslaved with no recourse into the only mould available them. OSHA, and the analog in all western nations are all enforcement arms of correct think. You may be thinking, well these arms of government make the work place more tolerable, make employers less able to exploit us, and yes increase safety.
I maintain that they cross the line substantially beyond any benefit they provide. The maze of government regulation greatly resembles religion in the deep study and written interpretation that surrounds it. Once again, this ultimately is not about your safety or freedom from exploitation at all. It is all directly associated with profit motive. You as a human are reduced to an entity that will accept the dictates with no freedom to decide for yourself what risk is acceptable to you, or what methods you take to determine that.
To rationalize this as the good of the collective needs prioritizing is once again dehumanizing and radically feminine. We are not bees or ants. Huge worksites are themselves unnatural and another problem in and of themselves.
and women.