To Solve the Problem...
...you must deal with the root of the problem.
Modern day societal problems, such as our wayward American government and it's manifest human destruction and harm on national and global scales, are much like a large sick tree that has a cancer.
The cancer is obviously evident in nearly every branch and leaf of the tree. But clipping off a few of these bad leaves and branches doesn't solve the problem, which must actually be dealt with at the roots of this diseased tree.
The approach by most people these days is to point to those few bad leaves ("Bush", the "Republicans", the "neocons", etc.,) and suggest that we just need to clip those off and things will be better. This ignores the fact that the basis of the problems are rooted much deeper in the system.
In order to fix our country's problems, we must look much deeper than those outter branches and leaves which are most apparent to us.
The problem (and thus the solution) with our American government is not party-affiliation, idiology, or some other discreet branch of the tree. The problems are rather systemic and can be easily traced down the fundemental rules of our system; the very roots of the system.
Unless we address these roots of the system (which very few people ever talk about) then nothing will ultimately be accomplished, or changed.
A changing of the guard in Washington, while being a 'feel good' thing in the moment, will accomplish little, if any, meaningful changes over the long term or on the greater scale. Nor will it effect a change of direction away from the iceburg that this Titanic will ultimiately strike.
The problem lays at the roots of our political/governmental tree and thus significant changes to the foundation of this system must be enacted in order to change directions in this country.
Nobody of significance (on the mainstream stage) ever talks about these real issues that must be dealt with, but rather this or that superficial change that will make this or that ego feel better for the time being; that branch or clump of leaves that needs pruning so that the outer surface looks just a little more healthy, and while ignoring the fact that the real cancer continues to live underneath and will shortly again, and continue repeatedly, to rear it's ugly nature until systematic failure and self-destruction of the system, the death of our society as we know it, ultimately results.
Modern day societal problems, such as our wayward American government and it's manifest human destruction and harm on national and global scales, are much like a large sick tree that has a cancer.
The cancer is obviously evident in nearly every branch and leaf of the tree. But clipping off a few of these bad leaves and branches doesn't solve the problem, which must actually be dealt with at the roots of this diseased tree.
The approach by most people these days is to point to those few bad leaves ("Bush", the "Republicans", the "neocons", etc.,) and suggest that we just need to clip those off and things will be better. This ignores the fact that the basis of the problems are rooted much deeper in the system.
In order to fix our country's problems, we must look much deeper than those outter branches and leaves which are most apparent to us.
The problem (and thus the solution) with our American government is not party-affiliation, idiology, or some other discreet branch of the tree. The problems are rather systemic and can be easily traced down the fundemental rules of our system; the very roots of the system.
Unless we address these roots of the system (which very few people ever talk about) then nothing will ultimately be accomplished, or changed.
A changing of the guard in Washington, while being a 'feel good' thing in the moment, will accomplish little, if any, meaningful changes over the long term or on the greater scale. Nor will it effect a change of direction away from the iceburg that this Titanic will ultimiately strike.
The problem lays at the roots of our political/governmental tree and thus significant changes to the foundation of this system must be enacted in order to change directions in this country.
Nobody of significance (on the mainstream stage) ever talks about these real issues that must be dealt with, but rather this or that superficial change that will make this or that ego feel better for the time being; that branch or clump of leaves that needs pruning so that the outer surface looks just a little more healthy, and while ignoring the fact that the real cancer continues to live underneath and will shortly again, and continue repeatedly, to rear it's ugly nature until systematic failure and self-destruction of the system, the death of our society as we know it, ultimately results.
posted by Simple Simon at 14:35
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