The Blame Game
Waiting for a package that needs to be signed for, the delivery service keeps giving different delivery windows and the receiver is trying to be home to sign for it while managing his work schedule. It is not the driver’s fault that the company keeps giving different times, nor the customer service agent answering the phone who is just looking at a computer screen. But it is easy to vent to them.
Fighting about the administrative tasks, the members of the organization need to fill out some forms, attend some stupid meetings, and send emails. The organization benefits from recognition as belonging in some technical groups, so therefore they have some requirements that are silly busy work. No one wants to waste their time with the paperwork, but they are quick to correct someone else who is doing it wrong.
Predicting invasion and war in a vulnerable land, the politicians of more powerful countries are quick to point fingers. If only the other party were in power, this would not be happening over there, they instinctually claim. Might as well capitalize off of the situation to make their policies look better. The next election will sway the other way, and then again sway the other way in the next, ad nauseam.
But we see how easy it is to let the frustration turn into being upset with someone, even if there is very little blame they are responsible for, or even none. We want to direct our frustration so that we can be upset with something or someone. It feels better to have an object of blame rather than nothing, the universe, or chance, or to acknowledge that the world is just simply not made to work exactly the way we think it should.