Another Kind Of Burn Out

Police, like teachers now, are asked to do a lot these days, when there are so many sensitivities in play, so many economic dislocations, and the fact that we've had several generations now of generally inept people raising generally inept offspring; and in this I refer from the reference point of the Great Depression, which ruined my grandparents, and insured the ineptness of my parents; who then bestowed a good deal of same on all of us five kids; a thing I believe happened a lot for the Baby Boomer generation, to one degree or another.

And then Capitalism started getting really crazy, because the ability to structure electron, and photon, paths became almost the equal of the human brain itself.

And now, certainly, the planet is getting crazy right back at us for not paying attention to certain things soon enough; chiefly being, naturally, that major changes in instrumentality must require major changes in how a society operates within the new capabilities such instrumentality make possible. So much so now that, with the aid of properly context sensitive AR software, and AR glasses of some type, generally more capable people are going to be able to do a lot more specialized tasks than might ever have been imagined before.

The problem here, really, is not only much like the problem with education itself, but also with with care for the elderly, preschool daycare for children, and the disability needs of a whole host of special needs people. We think we can just hire somebody to take care of these things. Pay them as little as we think we can get away with, and are then horribly aghast at what results when these "hirelings" have to deal with too much; day in and day out. Decade after decade (our members of the military face a very similar problem).

If we shared the load for all of these difficult, but absolutely necessary functions, in order to have a community in the first place; and if we guaranteed everybody a living wage for moving about, one month or so at a time, to some other aspect task for the community, we would go a long way to not only decrease the chances for burn out, we'd be giving everybody a chance to understand what doing that task involves. The reality of it. A chance to walk a mile in another service provider's shoes, if you will. Providing, I think, a much better opportunity, for a good deal more of us, so as to have a broader understanding of what making certain decisions, regarding a particular tasks operations, will have. And I, for one, can't help but think that this would make for both better community decisions, but also for a lot better service provider; one less prone to both mistakes, or worse, and/or ultimate burn out. If for no other reason than the people they will be providing service for will already know that they are a lot more likely to understand things from both sides too.

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