8 thoughts on “Urgency”

  1. I remember the old saying: “Inshallah is like the Mexican Mañana — except without the sense of urgency.”
    One theory is that it harkens back to before the Machine Age where it usually did not manner if you did something today or later. Or an entire culture that “self motivation” was not assumed as a virtue because some overseer would tell you when to do something and punctuate it with a fist or kick.

    1. To quote the first Democrat Vice President– “Never do today what can be put off until tomorrow.”

      Then again, he did kill one of his political opponents. Then he ran off to try and unsuccessfully start his own country.

    2. You’re right. I once worked with some guys who were ethnically Armenian, but born all over the Middle East. One said that if an Arab asked another to help him with something, the other might say “inshallah”, and not show up to help. Obviously Allah did not will him to show.

      It reminds me of a couple of years ago when the National African American History Museum wrote on their website that being on time, and a few other things, were among the markers of “whiteness”. So, yes, we should not take on the “climate “crisis” ” with urgency.

  4. It seems Germans have proven that they are most urgent about global warming {and could freeze to death this winter} so, yeah.

  6. “911, what is your emergency?”

    “Help, my husband is having a heart attack! Please hurry!”

    “I’m sorry, ma’am. We’ve been ordered to no longer respond with a sense of urgency. Urgency has been declared as a manifestation of white supremacy. We can’t have that, now can we?”

    “But my husband could die! When can you get here?”

    “We might be able to have paramedics at your location in a couple hours. They’re all in mandatory racial sensitivity training right now. That’s a higher priority to our managers than responding to calls and saving lives.”

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