Regarding personality types, are these mutual? Not to say that you can’t have one without the other, but is it a requirement to have both, when you identify a single person as one type?
I’m not certain I even like pairing ‘obstructor’ in the title. It (well, both) suggest active involvement in any direction. You can have negative and / or positive functions under both of those titles. (fair warning; I’m going to do my best to keep the two sides alphabetically oriented – trying not to slant this rant either pro or con) ((see, did it right there, our English language tends to drift towards putting the positive option first))
- Enabler – negative
- Enabler – positive
- Obstructor – negative
- Obstructor – positive
(Ooooooo K. – let’s see if I can retrieve this blog blithering two months after 🥴)
I think the first one is easy. Allowing another to do a negative action. Exs. – ‘theft prevention specialists’ that are directed not to interfere with a shoplifter. Police directed not to interfere with rioters/looters/‘protesters’. Media outlets propagandizing and calling it news. You get the idea.
The second. Exs. – Teachers that allow students to use alternative thought processes that still come to the correct answer (instead of threatening them with failure for not adhering to the current, fashionable, teaching trend. Judges putting first/second time misdemeanor offenders probation. (* Going to cite prosecutors under the next area). Parents allowing their children more mobility/authority, if/when the child shows a consistent capacity demonstrating maturity. Et cetera.
Negative Obstructor. Exs – prosecutors that pad charges in order to obtain a conviction(s). Please don’t follow the thought process that supports a lazy execution of you job. (sub-thought; pay lawyers the same as teachers – just an idea 😁). Marketing aimed at the most vulnerable people (candy at the checkout, just at their eye height and reach; 2-for-1/ladies night at bars/clubs; election campaigns that start before the previous election results are posted). (for some reason, I just had the mental recall of a scene from A Clockwork Orange, where Herbert Lom, as the parole officer, grabs McDowell’s crotch and says, “I’ve got to save you from yourself.”)
Bringing us, hopefully, the final. Something simple, yet mostly ignored or unnoticed – the school crossing guard. (personal opinion: anyone who passes a school bus, lights flashing, stop sign out; hung/drawn/quartered.) The janitor who puts up the Caution: wet sign while mopping (have seen too many self-important people ignore these signs, fall on their ass, and begin screaming “lawsuit!”)
Not a large post, but one that comes from talking to myself on a long-ish commute.
Rants Unto the Ether 