It Is All Your Fault!!

When I think of Puritans, I think of "the city on the hill" and the model for the new world. Sounds like a perfect community, right? Well. not really. The Puritans dreamed of having a "model" community for their folk back home, but who would have dreamed of a perilous time full of suspicion? Since the community was not as perfect as they dreamed it would be, they began to blame it on "unnatural things"(Miller 9). In Arthur Miller's, The Crucible, Parris' daughter Betty has become ill and will not awaken. The Puritans begin to think "it is surly a stroke of hell"(12). They begin to use the devil as a scapegoat and are suspicious that witchcraft has caused there children to be ill. Why does there always need to be some one to blame?
Lately, the economy has been, in my terms, down in the dumps. One of the USA's largest insurance companies, AIG, was just bailed out by the government. Lehman Brothers, a large investment banking company, files for bankruptcy. The economy is in a perilous time. From watching the television, it seems like each annalist has someone to blame, even the presidential candidates. McCain claims that"[Obama] is part of the problem in Washington". This boggles my mind. I do not understand why people always have to blame someone. Have people ever considered trying to work together and fix the problem, rather than blaming people ? It seems to me that during rough, perilous times, we want to find a quick answer to why the hardship has happened, so we find a scapegoat. Human nature is so fascinating because it never changes; it happened in 1692 and it happens in 2008.