The bricks came down
Mohandas Gandi is quoted as saying: “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win” when describing the stages of establishment resistence to a winning strategy of nonviolent activism.
If you’ve been reading, or better still, listening to the Extraordinary Everyday Lives podcast, you’ll know I’ve been battling with some Government bureaucratic nonsense around my work place support. Things got real stupid real quick and for no good reason except trying to ‘handle‘ people living with a disability rather than work with them. Let’s all say together ‘c o l l a b o r a t i o n’.
Anyway, I wasn’t taking it. I was sick of rolling of one more time to have them see their version of ‘help’ imposed upon me. I took up the issue on the grounds of their own policy inadequecies. Funy how “everybody likes to see justice done…on somebody else“.
Well I heard yesterday that they had decided to allow me to keep doing what I had been successfully doing for 13 years anyway.
Chalk one up for the little guy.
Keep kicking against the bricks!
Dave
Little guy my arse!
It is great that you had a ‘win’ but a crying shame that you had to waste so much of your valuable resources ‘fighting’ the process monkeys enforcing the letter of the law while damaging the spirit of it. I really hope you can stay focussed on the lifekludger dream, rise above all of this crap and lead the world to a better way for all the ‘little guys’ who dont fit neatly into a brick shaped box.
Fang
Comment by fang — July 29, 2006 @ 12:55 pm
Thanks Mike. It certainly is draining of resources in so many areas. Like time to answer comments !
Comment by Dave the Lifekludger — August 2, 2006 @ 11:03 am