Don't look to Governments for a Recovery

The real and timely solutions to our problems reside within local communities.  Let's take a look at why this seems to increasingly be the case.

Governments are not well positioned to handle the details of each person’s life needs.  Challenges to providing meaningful and well paid work for educated people go unmet. 

To address issues of economic recovery we have to include community in the mix.  Perhaps this is because a local community is better positioned to supply what is necessary when people are in-between jobs, in distress, or simply wanting to be pro-active and discover a new way of being in the world. 

Why meet to address the needs of the government when we could be addressing the needs of societies where governments are increasingly powerless to effect the necessary change?  It’s relatively difficult for institutions to think and act differently so as to allow us to turn things around. It would be illegal for governments to spend tax-payers’ money, held in trust, to move towards outcomes that are not understood ahead of time. 


Money and effort must be in service to an outcome that is readily broken down into clearly defined objectives.  However those days are probably over. 


When a government insists on clearly defined outcomes it does not help society.  This means that we cannot limit ourselves to project management.  Therefore creativity is difficult for a society reliant on leadership through representation.  Creativity is required when we are dealing with probabilities and do not know outcomes before we start.

Why not work together creatively as individuals, in ways that increase the possibilities of recovery?

It is only when an individual determines what is fulfilling that he or she feels motivated to act.  It is only when we ask questions we want answered that we maximize our chances of figuring out what will work and outperform, in terms of effectiveness, what is currently in place. 

The real tragedy in all this is that authoritarian forms of government distract us.  We continue to delay personal introspection and therefore our prospects of making the adaptations we need to make.  

We need to change as individuals.  We can produce items and services that contribute to whatever kind of society it is that we want to live in.  No-one has to know ahead of time what that society, or mix of societies will look like.