It is reasonably safe to assume that if you have found your way to reading this page, you are aware that we are facing massive societal and economic problems, locally, nationally and internationally too.
The chances are however, that you will already have an idea or ideas of your own that anchor to what you have concluded yourself or that you agree with others to be the cause.
Common causes for problems like the Cost-of-Living Crisis, Inflation, National and Personal Debt, Energy Prices, Strikes and others too are identified as events such as Brexit, The Covid Pandemic, The War in Ukraine. Otherwise they are placed directly at the feet of The Government, a previous government, any one of The Political Parties or one or more of the Politicians involved.
However, it is not the events that this Country and the World has faced that are the cause of our problems themselves.
It is not the Political Party, the Group or Individual Politician that can be identified as the cause.
Indeed, the way that our Governments, Politicians and anyone with influence or responsibility for the response and measures taken to mitigate against or implement solutions to such events, and respond to them, or even see them through to conclusion is a more informed way to think about the cause of the impacts from these events, rather than it being all about the events themselves.
Yet even the response or way that those with power have responded to them isn’t the real cause of our problems.
Our problems are caused by the way that we, and more importantly the way that our Politicians and anyone with influence or responsibility that can affect our lives in some way thinks, acts and behave.
It is thoughts, actions and behaviour that cause everything.
This is what really matters when it comes to the effects of every decision taken that affects Public Policy of any kind, and then finds its way to us.
The original form of this Blog is part of the e-book ‘The Way of Awakened Politics for Good Government’ published in December 2022. Please do download a copy for your Kindle from Amazon.
Adam Tugwell 