So many signs show chaos, problems, public disagreements, economic issues and cliffhanger business and stock market data. Are we now in decline? Could we go over the top (or under the bottom) and lose it all? Is America doomed?
No, I think not. The proof of that is the open communications we have in our nation’s history, social makeup and open access. Do we have problems? Yes. Are they unsolvable? No. Have they been around a long time and immune to solution? Yes. Doesn’t that mean we are doomed to repeat the same over and over again? And doesn’t that spell doom?
No. And no again.
No one has claimed we are perfect. A lot of purists will disagree with me on that, but our history is an open book. We have written our history to learn from it. It has been misrepresented and miswritten for a long time. Academic historians, however, stick with the source material and continue to research the true tales of the past. Our history is continually updated and corrected. It is a never-finished-project.
Our social media is an open book. It is free for all to use. Even outsiders from other nations and cultures are free to roam our communication channels. They can write in it, re-direct it, propagandize it, and perform host of other negatives. But in the end, we parse, study and research those thoughts and uncover propaganda and deliberate misstatement. We come to know the false and home in on the true.
We critique ourselves. We hold ourselves accountable. We self-educate on many topics; in fact, that self-education makes it possible discern what’s true and what is not. So, if foreign entities are trying to destabilize America, they won’t succeed. Mainly because they don’t understand our open society.
If I have a complaint (and I do!), it is that my fellow Americans are stubborn and lazy. They don’t like change and are slow to recognize the need to change, and the opportunities change provides.
All futures come from change and adaptation to new realities. Always has been. Our systems are built for change. Will our police department design change? Yes, it will. It may take many years to accomplish, but a healthy re-design is in the making as we speak. That’s a good thing. Will public education methods shift? Yes, they are already doing so as we speak. That, too, will take many years.
Change, after all, is a constant and the process demonstrates that.
Chaos? Sure. That’s the proof that we are changing. We have done it many times in the past, and adaptation is a cultural process. We know how to do it. It isn’t always pleasant, but it is necessary.
Doomed? Hardly! The future beckons us to better times and experiences. And quality of life.
Time to get to work on the opportunities. They start with problems to solve. We have many of those!
June 13, 2020
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