Personal - #501 - #34 - So many Different individuals……….

The author was just thinking …..

There are so many different individuals with “individual” ways of thinking and “individual” ways of living that to find “one common best way” is impossible.
What do the “experts” say? They take polls, do surveys and ask questions and then come up with results. What are these results anyway?
Isn’t it a fact that the surveys only cover one country or one type of person? After all, does a native of Guiana speak a language that is even understandable in the next village much less the entire country? Does the “survey” or “poll” include these opinions? Hardly!!!

Are we really looking for a one “best way” for “our own” society?
Once we figure out whose “society” is “our own”, we might get some kind of a one “common best way”!
The idea that we can come to a “common understanding” for everybody is an impossibility!

What then?
How do we do anything?
Do we just throw up our hands and go about our own personal “survival”?
Do we all just get a “headache” and go our separate ways?

Suppose we say that we get most of our information from people close to us, which we say is “our society”.
Suppose we exclude the people who are different (or, at least, we think they are different) Do we really expect to come up with a “one common best way”?
Can you see there are people who understand this and try to sell us on ideas and laws that appeals to the “most” of us.
They use the terms that are either “legalese” or are “general enough” so that the “unmotivated” believe they know what is “the real meaning” of these terms. They are experts in forming so-called “public opinion”. They are trying to get acceptance of an “agenda”. Sometimes they are called “politicians”; sometimes “pollsters”, sometimes the media, etc.

I previously asked “What then?”

If you already are aware that the information you are receiving is “local”, you need NOT think about finding “a one perfect solution!
If you are already aware that “a one perfect solution” is impossible, you can restrict your efforts and save your “stomach”. Don’t look for “a one perfect solution”! Advance your ideas as a possible “improvement” or a possible “successful alternative” to a particular idea for a particular group or situation. Don’t try to “argue” with a person who doesn’t know the difference between an “argument and an exchange of views”. …….(This is a possible answer to “What then?”)

It may be an individual, a group, a government or a country….. But a world?..... I don’t think so!!
Those with “master plans” are doomed from the beginning! If you have a powerful police force or an army, you can “force” people to accept anything for a while. But if you lose that ability to “force” … look out!

How then do you get a vast number of “individuals” to accept certain “ground rules”.
Do we go to war? Do we not go to War? …..Is “freedom” an acceptable idea or is a “managed society” a better, more practical idea?
It all depends to whom we are talking !! ……(It’s that “our society” thing, again.)
Who or what are we talking about?

You must try to explain yourself. You must “educate”. ……You CANNOT “force”!
What happens if you are failing to “educate”?... Do you become “pro-active”?..... Do you try “force”?

You must “protect” yourself by whatever means there are (including war, use of nuclear power, and or “controllable” weapons of mass destruction); but, at the same time, you must keep trying to explain, trying to educate, trying to exchange views!
One is no good without the other! Your own “survival” is paramount! Number one!! But the effort” to explain” must continue!

This is the imperfect world we live in… a constant balancing between “self-protection” and “education”.
To those who wish to impose their thoughts and will on others, beware!...It’s still “education” over “force”!
To “exchange ideas” is still more acceptable than to attempt to “force ideas”.

If you’re up against someone, or some state or some group that is trying to “force ideas”; at least attempt to explain your understanding of “force” and your desire to “educate and exchange ideas”. You owe yourself that much!
Once you see that “your self-protection is “at risk”, you must act accordingly. The problem becomes …“When are you at the borders of risk?”……. That’s the question creating so much controversy!...... When?
What’s a “border of risk”? …. Who decides? ….. On what basis?

Everyone, each individual, has his stake in the answers!
But here’s what we are generally told by the government (the voted for government). “Weapons of mass destruction, including biological, chemical and nuclear create a survival risk to the U.S.A.”!
The basis? … Intelligence gathered by the British and the U.S. CIA. No, not the opinions of some people, but actual intelligence gathered and interpreted by so-called “experts”. Also weighing in was the actual, provable use of chemical weapons in the Kurdish affair. The U.N. also had asked for complete exposure for ten years without satisfactory results.
Conclusion by our “voted for ruling bodies” …. A pre-meditated attack to preserve our society!

BUT... some non-voted for groups decided this was incorrect. They said there was no immediate threat! There was inadequate proof of weapons of mass destruction! Therefore a pre-meditated strike by the U.S. was unwarranted, a bad idea!

Again….What’s a “border of risk”? …. Who decides? ….. On what basis?

This example of “controversy”, of the unwillingness of a group to “accept” the judgments of the so-called “voted for leadership”, leads to our present state of indecision. In America we change leadership every four years if the voting majority wishes a change, a change in policy.

O.K. … So what change in “policy” does the other side want? … What’s a practical “alternative”?

It is not useful to merely criticize. … What do they want….precisely? … Is this practical at this time? …. Are there enough defined changes offered? …. Do we really have a clear cut choice? …OR,… Is this just another grab for power?

Without the acceptance of a rule for discussion, all we hear is noise! … It’s all “oral static”!
Both sides bleating! Both sides trying to “force” their agendas.
Thinking Americans simply don’t know what to do. Those on the fence go to the “sidelines” and simply “drop out”. Those that don’t care or a totally involved in their own survival have already “dropped out”. So what or who decides on the “agenda”, “the rules”, “the policies”?
Of course, it’s the few that know how to “manipulate” the “many”.

When “the many” decide that they disagree with the existing policies of a few, they will “rise up” in a confused but ugly confrontation. This has been the way of the world. The few who find ways to “control” or “force” eventually are drowned by “the many”.
Is this what America faces? … Is there a way to put off this ugly “confrontation? ….
Thinking Americans are deeply concerned about this issue!

Where will honest dialogue take place?
Who will be the participants?
Who will be willing to state his positions in straight forward English?
Where and when will this take place?
Who will be the neutral “moderator” that determines clarity or asks for “further clarity”?

AND …. Who will “listen”?


P.S. This is a sad reality. I can offer no solution. But just thinking about the possibility of a simple “grab for power” without due regard for what’s right for the majority, is something to be thinking about! Maybe the “media” talk and the words from so-called political leaders and pundits need to be better scrutinized before they are used as a basis for further discussions.