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[siercia]

I'm not sure if I've ever ranted about this here before, but I hate NIMBYism. Hate it, hate it, hate it. Seriously, I consider the behavior it engenders to a be a sign of significant moral failing.

Call me a complete goober if you will, but I do honestly believe that sometimes, someone has to take one for the team, as it were, and I also believe that being on the receiving end of whatever "bad" stuff is going to happen needs to be spread around. No one group, or place, or town should ever have to do all the sucking up so that another group or town doesn't have to do any. I think this is true, even when it might mean that the people benefitting from my taking one for the team are people I don't know. I think it's true if I get no benefit, because I persist in hoping that other people feel the same way; that it is a reciprocal engagement where each person involved recognizes that sometimes, you make sacrifices for the greater good, and sometimes other people do, and it all works out in the end.

Like I said. Goober. Stupid, pollyanna, optimistic goober.

And it makes me really realy furious when I have to deal with people who think that instead, someone ELSE should make all the sacrifices, and their little worlds should never be anything other than perfect, exactly how THEY want it, because they are special (and this part really rankles) and better than me.

With all that said, it warms my heart to see the hospital hill wankers get their asses handed to them on a technicality tonight. Oh yes, yes it does.

Comments

[cfred.livejournal.com]

The only thing worse is that when people know that the "bad" is in the area: like people who buy near an airport and then complain about the planes flying over their house.

mosq?

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

oh dear dog, this reminds of the davis square community, where any time a plane flies over, you get a scad of posts about OMG TEH PLANEZ!

So what annoying NIMBYism is rearing its head where you are?

Re: mosq?

[siercia]

msoq is Widgets school - Montessori School of Quincy.

The annoying NIMBYism is the stupid people in the neighborhood where msoq is renovating their new digs. I think I'm going to write up the whole tale in another post.

Re: mosq?

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

Ah! I await your tale.

[siercia]

Yes, that is slightly more annoying, although the sheer ballsiness of thinking that you should be allowed to control your entire environment 100% of the time has its own peculiar irritating-ness.

[asmodel.livejournal.com]

I see your airport locals, and raise you a pub locals. I lived in the inner city for several years, and the local papers were full of stories about locals complaining about club/pub/bar patrons making a noise as they leave the establishment. Well if you don't like the sound of nightlife, don't move to the inner city! I can actually say this one without hypocrisy, as I lived across the road from one the main university pub, and got the full brunt of the noise. Did it annoy me? Yes it did. Did I get over it? Yes I did. Why? Because I only had to get up 20 minutes before class, and getting home from the pub was easy.

[siercia]

Yeah, we get that in Boston with the bars and the colleges and Fenway. Dude. You *knew* it was there when you moved there! Get over it!

[cfred.livejournal.com]

Two communities around Atlanta have convinced the trains to stop blowing their whistles as they come through town.

Because, of course, the inconvenience of noise is far more important than people's safety at railroad crossings.

[technoluddite.livejournal.com]

Goober.

I adore hypocrisy and privilege. And especially admire cocky people with a sense of entitlement.

[siercia]

I've always thought that about you =)

[siercia]

And you laugh, but I've hard plenty of people pontificate on how the people who live in a neighborhood/town/etc. have the right to control exactly how any parcel of land is used, and on their "right" to peace and quiet and an unimpeded view.

[ratphooey.livejournal.com]

Yarg.

I'm with you.

[siercia]

I just don't get how the concept of the social contract has seemingly been abandoned.

[xinef.livejournal.com]

You should hear Andrew go on about folks who buy houses near airports and then complain about the noise. Why did they buy that house then??

[siercia]

Yeah, for real.

[nemomori.livejournal.com]

Waiting for the tale.