Yea verily The Movers and Shakers are society’s paveway makers. They recognise a need, feel a cause and initiate action. These people make things happen, they are the driving force in our society. By virtue of their very nature, they are rarely perfect, they have backgrounds and have, invariably, at some some stage of their life, trodden on the daisies. Our society could not do without these people. They are a rare minority and because of their positivity and momentum They make enemies.
The enemy of the Movers and the Shakers are the Naysayers and the Finger Pointers. The Naysayers and Finger Pointers are the reactive side of society. They rarely initiate and rarely expose themselves to the spotlight. They fester in the shadows in their masses and froth into braying criticism Which may, or may not, develop into righteous finger pointing and condemnation. (Depending, of course, on the issue at hand and the degree of hysteria generated.)
The Naysayers and Finger Pointers are society’s negatives. (They would say that they are society’s necessary checks and controls… Which perhaps, to some degree they are.)
The realm of the Tall Poppy Syndrome is the perfect territory for Naysayer/Finger Pointer operation. It provides the right mix of avarice, envy and vengeance to blend clandestinely beneath a covering cloak of righteous indignation. And it provides the symbiotic platform for mass reaction from the great unwashed.
I note that Mayor Bob Parker and benefactor Sir Owen Glenn are the latest recipients of negative onslaught. The Mayor has just announced that, after many years of public service, he has had a guts full of the braying abuse and is throwing in the towel. I sincerely hope that he retires with wealth and lovely wife and that he bathes in the satisfaction of his many, many achievements…well away from the accusing crowd. And if I was Sir Owen Glenn, I would abruptly cancel the offered, generous, $2 million finance for the Anti Domestic Violence Campaign and with fierce eye tell the Naysayers and Finger Pointers of New Zealand society to go stuff themselves… then turn and walk away, never to return.