Our politicians, regardless of philosophy, right or left, or
anywhere else on the political spectrum, appear disconnected from reality.
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| Albert Einstein - doing the same thing and expecting a different result equates with insanity. |
The Greens are probably closest to being in the moment, but
because we live in a liberal democracy, they too are powerless to make the
changes needed if humanity is to flourish.
The voting process is a vital and if nothing else is a
symbol that the idea of democracy is still intact and so whatever we may think
or imagine, vote we must and vote we should.
We cannot ignore the September 7 election and hope that
something will change, for doing nothing and expecting a different result
echoes with the Albert Einstein observation that insanity is doing the same
thing repeatedly and expecting different results.
So where are we now?
The world is in environmental, economic and resource
disarray; food security for billions is a fantasy, happiness for an equal
number rests with the fluff of consumerism, peace is always seemingly out of
reach, and history, both ancient and contemporary, clearly illustrates that it
is the rich, and responsible men, who decide on our future.
Interestingly the status quo, which has been, and is, the
engine behind this shambles with which the world community presently wrestles,
has many influential advocates, while the future is abandoned largely to silence
and chance.
The future is an unknown place for no-one has ever been
there, but our behaviour today is the building blocks from which tomorrow is
constructed.
Sadly, most candidates on September 7 offer little or
nothing to enable us to break the status quo shackles that bind us to a profit
and growth paradigm that is destined only for chaos and disaster.
What do we do?
We need wake-up and arise from our entertainment induced
slumber and understand that we are not powerless, rather not accepting
responsibility and being powerless are either side of the one coin and so in
accepting responsibility, we become powerful.
Our politicians, right, left or otherwise, must, beyond
anything else, accept responsibility for the broad ethical, inequality and
societal collapse that have engulfed Australia, and pressure from a responsible
electorate, that is you and me, will force that attitudinal change.
What do we want?
We want acceptance and understanding from our government
that all is not well with the world; we want them to acknowledge and act on the
fact that our climate is in grave danger; we want them to also acknowledge that
our economy is collapsing and can only be rescued through the implementation of
a steady state economy; we want the decentralization of all services; the
localization of food supplies; we want them to re-shape how we live, making traditional
work less important; and to create and build resilient communities.
