The World of Politics is the World of Problems, not Solutions

Each society has a government that reflects the collective consciousness of that society.

In a society with a representative government, we elect representatives to go to a distant city and sit in a body and try to pass legislation to improve society, to better it. It’s a crime for us to send our representatives to a pool of negativity, to a hopeless task. 

Societies cannot be led by future-oriented visionaries. They cannot be pulled into the future. Rather they are reactive; societies move in response to an outside stimulus, as has been demonstrated time and time again in history. 

Whether it is the result of a war, drought, famine, economic crash, depletion or embargo of natural resources or energy sources, natural catastrophe (earthquake, volcanic eruption, hurricane, and tsunami) or global climate change, it is typically outside influences that force us to change.

And change is always painful, which is why we resist change.

Internal influences can also be the source of change. For example, when a segment of society that formerly held a plurality finds that, over time, it has lost its plurality to a different ethnic, racial or religious group, civil war can often be the result.

In fact, this is what is happening in the state of Texas right now (2021). The Caucasian race has a plurality of around 39% of the population, while the Hispanic race has around 38%. However the population growth of the Hispanic race is nearly ten times that of the Caucasian race. Eventually the Caucasian race will lose its plurality. It is inevitable. This civil war is presently being fought in the state legislature and in the courts as new voting-rights legislation and anti-abortion legislation is signed into law. Will it become a shooting war?