It struck me today that thinking is fine so long we have the time, yet thinking about the more important aspects of life may need more than a few minutes space and we therefore avoid them. So here are 2 things I would like to think about if I had time.
1. Leadership in society
It seems that trust in how we run our society continues to wane. Of course that is to be expected. We are changing, Generation Y is leading in the world of work at a serious level now. For the majority everything is about relationships and now whilst governmental leadership remains entrenched in the habits of the past and, if you believe the press, becoming increasingly more corrupt (or is that just more visibly corrupt?).
We continue to have unjustified secrecy, representation that does not account for majority choice and decisions made by expedience and short-term financial pressures at best.
In the mean time, there are some very major issues we face as a race called humanity and it looks like we need a leadership shift to tackle them for real. Is anyone up for the challenge? Could we not take our leaders away from the critical tasks of ensuring they have a job at the next election and interfering in situations that work perfectly well without their caring concern – and get them to behave as problem solvers for the global issues that could just really matter? Hmm perhaps not.
2. Preparing our children for the future
Education has been a marvelous thing; creating a civilised society. It has moved us from a mere survival existence to conscious development and a complex lifestyle. It has allowed us to create more time for parents to work, it has allowed us to hand off our responsibility for developing society’s moral and ethical understanding to peers in a playground. Education has replaced our responsibility for a skilled and motivated workforce and given it to a government programme that recognizes intelligence as a tabulated yardstick of its own success more than an enabler of the future.
Are parents too busy or perhaps too confident in the experts that we have been taught to trust to think that our children’s future is in safe hands? Sadly the issues they face could well be more important than YouTube and some musical event at high school. Do they even know what the issues are let alone care?
As a generation Xer, if I think these issues matter then something must be up. It would appear that society is perhaps in transition – at least from where I am looking. Whilst some groups continue to dance to the music on the Titanic, others are challenging the status quo already.
When will I have time to think in earnest?
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