Where are we now? What do we do? What do we want?

Our politicians, regardless of philosophy, right or left, or anywhere else on the political spectrum, appear disconnected from reality.

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.