It’s pretty certain that more or less everyone who at least tries to function and take part in ‘normal’ life is uncomfortable with the way that life and the things that affect us from the world outside are going. Even if that discomfort is merely a feeling or just a few questioning thoughts.
Yet the concerns that we all have are different and for the majority of us will relate only to the issues that are important to us, whether they are being able to afford food, the rapid rise in the prices of the things that we need, being paid more in the job that we have, being able to find a new job easily, being able to access hospital or a doctors appointment, being able to keep a business going, or even being able to grow food and to at least break even on a farm that we own.
There’s nothing wrong with thinking this way. Because to do so is merely in consideration of the issues that are genuinely important to us.
However, when it comes to addressing any one or all of the vast range of the problems that all of us now face; to act, demand or even debate the problem that is most important to us, and do so without making allowance for every other person having issues that are just as important too, means that anyone and everyone focuses only upon whose issue is the biggest and most important, and therefore the problem that must be prioritised.
Meanwhile, we leave no genuine problem solved and a situation where more and more of us are now joining that line.
Because we have very poor leaders and politicians who think and look at the world in the same way as the majority of us who don’t have the responsibility to look at everything differently, they too fall straight into the trap of focusing only on what is most important to them.
That’s why the UK and much of the World is now in the mess that its in.
It doesn’t matter how right any of us know ourselves or the group we follow to be. If we cannot accept that every problem that everyone has is also important and that the priority has to be to focus first on the problems that are common to us all, none of the problems that are really serious for anyone are going to get fixed.
Adam Tugwell 