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| (Kal, The Economist - 2010) |
The overwhelming global apathy about the state of the globe is easy enough to comprehend. Sure enough, most people care about the world, but, will not move a finger if it is to jeopardise the little stability their fragile lives offer. Sacrificing a day a week for doing something truly worth while would usually mean sacrificing that day of the week you meant for yourself.. that day that you DON'T have to dedicate to working for someone you don't give a hoot about, and whose business, frequently, is only meant to sustain itself and add things to the world we could, if truly civilized, do without. We all know this.. we all know that the contemporary ways of doing things are pathetically trailing the true potential of ourselves as a species. And where do we point the finger? Who do we blame?
We've pass the point of blaming politics, that's for sure.. We all know, all too well, that we can change the world.. That there are means to organize ourselves, to put ideals on paper and enforce them on ourselves..
Right? No, I don't think so. Not at all.. No, a lot of "folks" still count on the politicians as change factors.. they think, vaguely, a singular human can rectify the crooked, do away with the errors of the past and present and blah blah. Just look at the way our fellow plantetarians in USA seem to show disappointment towards the policies of the superstar phenomenon Obama.
"he failed to "change" the way of things"
"how can I still be unemployed"
"How have I benefitted from the health change bill?"
"What do the tax cuts for the middle sized companies really mean for me?"
In short, why is everything still so overwhelmingly.. same?
The answer lies in every poorly written and well intended self-help book...
The change comes from within... And would you know it?! Changing yourself might be the single hardest thing to do! And this is why people often invest faith in governments..(and why others don't, at all) They hope they will realize the means that will secure control in, I daresay, two ways:
- securing a stable environment in which those gifted with resiliance will reach conventional success
- deliver structures for those "less competent" to go by in their quest for just keeping the ticker ticking and reaching a state of happy.
Some people have it hard.. most people don't, it's true..Most of you are probably thinking, but I don't fit in one of those categories, There's more to my personal situation.. there are things that affect my life, that I can't control.. or.. I don't aim for conventional success Stanko, I'm actually going for the better of the world in my own way etc etc.
That's right.. there's more to you..
And the world is a better place because you are in it
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