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Originally Posted by Oppenheimer  This is a difficult topic to wrap your arms around and I think Waters' first attempt here fails to get the point across.....Irish Society is endemically bad at organising itself, or a Waters puts it, should not organise itself to the level of detail that antagonises our cultural instincts. |
That's a lot clearer than the way Waters put it.
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Simple examples abound to support our incapability to organise. Queuing for Dublin Buses is a classic. The queue generally, neatly forms and patiently waits the arrival of the bus. Upon its arrival the queue is reduced to an amorphous mass or "speech bubble"-shaped movement to the constriction that is the door. Take a similar case in the UK, Germany, France, but perhaps not Italy, and the comparison is clear. The queues tend to keep their original self-organised shape when the bus arrives and few choose to break that shape.
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The Luas seems to have a problem where people try to get on before people can disembark.
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I believe that this simple example can be expanded to many instances of lack of an ability to organise in our culture. Question is when is it dangerous, i.e., harmful to our society not to organise properly?
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The easy examples are when it's an emergency - you better have your fire drill known to everyone. Other examples get different opinions from different folk.