Yet, if you watched or read the daily news you would assume that anybody with a desire to bring about change would be confronted with so many road blocks that the effort just wasn’t worth the trouble.
Why is this depressing appearance of inertia and
stagnation so prevalent in this modern age? Surely, we are better than that.
Well yes we are but there needs to be some housekeeping
before we embark on the mission so many see as impossible.
We can’t keep on blaming one another for limiting
progress towards a better and more sustainable world.
When you really search for answers, it quickly becomes
noticeable that our problems are not entirely due to somebody else or group or
some law that prevents change - the problem is us or most of us.
As long as we continue to point the finger at other
people as being the root cause of our inability to make the changes necessary,
we will continue to descend into a state drifting towards anarchy.
And the irony is that all this could be avoided if we
individually decided to honestly examine why we can’t accept that “United we
stand - divided we fall ! “ All we have to do is to put aside our selfish sense
of entitlement, no matter how much we believe we have been robbed or denied
access to opportunities and commit to a programme that requires a contribution
from every single one of us that is only limited by our ability to make it.
Let’s look at a few examples of the things that continue
to divide us and prevent this unified march towards the truly egalitarian
society we can become - a goal that is still achievable in this country at
least.
The one thing that sets us apart from the rest of the
world is that our problems, particularly those involving racial differences,
are eminently solvable in spite of the radical anarchists who use continued
division as a means to achieve their own ideological objectives.
As a nation, we need to tell these destructive minority
groups that they can take their place alongside the rest of us or get out of
the way and let us get on with it.
Most people in this country are familiar with the
mistakes made during our development as a multicultural society but few other
democracies have made it this far without civil wars or internal unrest that
are still dominating attempts to bring lasting peace.
Fortunately, for us Kiwis - we are not yet locked into
the downward spiral that plagues much of the free world. We can decide to work
together for the betterment of us all but the price will simply be a change of
attitude towards one another - no need for grand gestures of reconciliation or
fawning demonstrations of guilt.
Just a commitment to changing the way we do things in
harmony with the environment that sustains us.
We simply need to say sorry for the mistakes of the past
if we haven’t already done so, use the mechanisms already in place for
compensating those who have been wronged, no need to change the laws based on a
false narrative and then get on with the tasks associated with identifying the
opportunities that are there for the taking.
I can list a whole number of doable projects just waiting
to be taken up here in my neck of the woods.
I have no doubt the rest of the country is looking at
similar opportunities - it just requires a change in attitude and a commitment
from us all to finding a way.
This is us!
Sorry Jacinda and her mates at the UN. We can do it
without you.
Clive Bibby is a commentator, consultant, farmer and community leader, who lives in Tolaga Bay.
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