“Systemic”, they say today
From Bankers to Police chiefs
Systemic is endemic;
It shuffles off the blame
It makes the matter impersonal,
It makes the blame general
It avoids a “Mea culpa”
It saves us saying “Sorry”
Systemic comes from systems
That are all made by humans
So mistakes are made by humans
Who make the faulty systems?
Nature doesn’t do it
No trees are orange by design
No trees are blue by mistake
Those would be systemic errors
But it doesn’t happen in nature
So why not say human for systemic?
©2009
James Hart
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