The Feedback Box has thrown forth another comment today. This one even shines a light on the way I live my life: The struggle to move forward and back your convictions and beliefs.
Sometimes the whole process of living in a modern world leaves us feeling depleted and dare I say it ... beaten. Which brings to mind the phrase we often hear ourselves utter in defense of the wrongdoing of others: "It's wrong ... but there's stuff all you can do about it."
It is hard to pull governments and corporations into line. It is hard to challenge set agendas. It is hard to re-ask the unanswered questions.
But it shouldn't be.
And if every disenchanted prick out there got together and helped ... the task wouldn't be hard.
This is a strange and dangerous world that we live in.
As a society we say we believe in things like justice and equity and sustainability. These values are reflected in the policies of government and industry. But an outsider looking in wouldn't see those values and policies reflected in the way in which our society is currently heading.
When it comes to our daily lives and at work we behave individually and collectively in ways that run counter to what our values and policies would dictate.
I was having a friendly chat with a politician recently about how the plans and policies that the local industry put on paper appear to be nothing more than a charade designed to keep people placated. I was dismayed when he admitted that government does the same, in the expectation that people will not actually hold them accountable. If we are going to be simply placated by the words of policies then we are in a deadly embrace with government and with industry. If we want a future that is worth living in it is dangerous to simply accept that business will go on as usual. It is dangerous not to expect people, governments, industry etc to actually implement what we know as a society we need to be doing.
Living in a dual reality in which we don't actually do what we know we need to do and everybody turns a blind eye is a sure way for things to end badly.
