Stop blaming...and start building

Blaming and scapegoating - The Churning

The final mis-blink or mistaken assumption we can easily make during this time of change is called blaming or scapegoating. When a situation turns out differently from the way we wanted or expected and we blame someone for something they had only partial control over then we are mixing up the person, the event, and our feelings about the event: we are ‘scapegoating’ the individual. Human beings have used blaming and scapegoating for thousands of…

Stop blaming...and start building

For far too long, politics in Trinidad and Tobago has been mired in a cycle of blame, with successive governments seeming to spend more time criticising their predecessors than focusing on the urgent task of governing.Both major parties—the People’s National…