Delicate Balance

A Delicate Balance.

I mean:

Builders versus Breakers.

Cleaners versus Dirtiers.

Carers versus the Irresponsible.

The Self-Sufficient versus the Bloody Nuisance.

Restorers versus Ruiners.

The World seems roughly in balance, in terms of who spoils it and who
makes it better. An example of the spoiling could be in a Hospital's
Accident and Emergency Department. A drunken 'clubber' has cut his
precious head trying to run without paying from a kebab shop. He has to
wait a few minutes with a few of his foul-mouthed chums before
treatment. He takes exception to the nurse, (male or female, it matters
not) who tries to dress the wound. The dabbing causes the cut to smart,
this and the waiting causes the drunk to assault the nurse, and anyone
else who intervenes, finishing off with a kicking. I wish I could say
that this is an extreme and probably isolated example for illustration
purposes, but you and I know it is all too common. If it is not
obvious, or you are a drunken clubber who can justify this behaviour
somehow, I will explain that the drunken lout is the spoiler and the
nurse the mender. Proof that there is a balance maintained between the
two is that there are still Hospitals, and Accident and Emergency
Departments, and Nurses dealing with this sort of thing, despite the
above everyday occurence.

I saw an example of a person who called 999 for an Ambulance to take
her down to Post Office to pay a Gas Bill. I leave it to the
imagination how many unjustified calls are made for Ambulances. By how
much do all fleets have to be overprovided for that reason? Most
strange, though in the same crazy vein as the poor nurse who suffered
in the first paragraph, is, why are Emergency Vehicles and their staff
sometimes attacked? It would serve them dead right, anyone who did
that, to be left twitching on the kitchen lino, when the great axe
genuinely falls, but that is not they way our carers work.

Vandalism is a good example of jumping on the scales, trying to defeat
the repairers and making the World a ruin. Is it caused by envy,
anarchism, evilness or what? Who do the spoilers think is going to put
everything right? Who do they think is going to pay?

I have an answer. I appeal to vandals to have pride in what you do.
Have your own facilities and swagger with the 'V' badge on the jacket.
Do not deign to travel or live with the namby-pambies, they are beneath
contempt, all that car washing and putting litter in the stupid little
baskets. There will be 'V' and 'Non-V' (Vandal and Non-Vandal)
carriages on the railways. In the 'V' class, you pay three times more
than 'Non-V', you sit, if you can, on slashed seats, the toilet is
broken etc; but you can perform vandalism if you can find anything
unbroken. Buses, the same. Bus shelters, ditto. In fact the 'V' bus
shelters can be erected ready-ruined. (Two types - Youthful bending and
scratching, or Strong Young Male Total Destruction.) Towns and Cities
also. Gothsville and Vandalton for the proudly anti-social. The Council
Tax is five times higher than normal, there is no public transport,
there is barely a pane of glass intact All the keep left bollards are
lying down. The tree-stump nursery employs two sapling breakers. Cars
are pre-scratched and for recreation there are concrete blocks stored
in convenient piles on all the motorway bridges.