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| “You are responsible for your behaviour.” |
| 2008-02-25 |
| Jay Nordlinger recently went to India, and National Review Online is in the middle of publishing a series of his travel writings. In today's installment is this little gem: In a hotel in Jodhpur, I take the backstairs, being somewhat confused. It is a place for employees. And I see an admonition — a declaration — painted on the wall: “You are responsible for your behaviour.” I think: How un-American. Completely unlike modern America, where you are never responsible for your behavior: Someone else is. You know, the government, George Bush, Enron, “society,” your doctor, your mother, your father, asbestos — The Man. “You are responsible for your behaviour.” What a shocking concept, alien to my own country, at least as I have known it. |
| Posted by:Mike |