Our world is based on ideas. If someone has a great new idea to improve the human existence it is accepted in time and put into motion. You can have a good life just implementing the ideas of others, but to have a truly revolutionary idea, you will become rich and leave a legacy that will outlast your physical form. We are always in need of an influx of new ideas. Some of them are good and some of them are, well, not so good. One question: since when did it become acceptable to do nothing except shoot down ideas without offering any new ones?
In the realm of politics there is no greater currency than good ideas. Unfortunately, due to many reasons which I will not get into here, good ideas are on short supply. We should be very happy to receive new ideas and should be looking for reasons to accept them and implement them. Instead, we are constantly looking for reasons to deny them without offering a new theory. When it comes to cutting government, universal health care, national defense, things clearly need a newly defined direction. Which direction I will leave up to you, but nonetheless, we need new ideas. The problem is everyone is so afraid of getting behind something that could end up failing that as soon as one problem is found with an idea the whole thing is scrapped without the dissenting voice presenting a new idea. Nobody is there to step in and come up with the "better" solution to take the place of the "potentially ineffective" solution.
Can we all wrap our heads around the idea that there is pretty much nothing that is totally right or totally wrong. There is a lot of gray area in this world and most great ideas involve some of said area. Microsoft has had many problems with Windows but yet it has helped advance human civilization to areas one couldn't imagine 30 years ago. If someone had said to Bill Gates that since there were problems with his software he should just ignore it and focus on something else we would be in a far different world. Why must we simply ignore an idea once it has been brought forth? Isn't there room to modify an idea, and reintroduce it as better? Maybe even do that a few times until the idea is fully ready to be implemented? Nature has done this with evolution. Why not with ideas?
If we are ever going to get anywhere in making this world more livable for ourselves we need to recognize that there is plenty of room to improve things, sometimes even after the fact. An idea need not be a perfect one without faults to be effective. Progress in small increments is still progress, and we should embrace any opportunity to move forward. How about we demand that politicians grow a pair and do something for us instead of worrying about their reelection? Wait, there might be some politicians who disagree with that so forget it; not a good idea.
In the realm of politics there is no greater currency than good ideas. Unfortunately, due to many reasons which I will not get into here, good ideas are on short supply. We should be very happy to receive new ideas and should be looking for reasons to accept them and implement them. Instead, we are constantly looking for reasons to deny them without offering a new theory. When it comes to cutting government, universal health care, national defense, things clearly need a newly defined direction. Which direction I will leave up to you, but nonetheless, we need new ideas. The problem is everyone is so afraid of getting behind something that could end up failing that as soon as one problem is found with an idea the whole thing is scrapped without the dissenting voice presenting a new idea. Nobody is there to step in and come up with the "better" solution to take the place of the "potentially ineffective" solution.
Can we all wrap our heads around the idea that there is pretty much nothing that is totally right or totally wrong. There is a lot of gray area in this world and most great ideas involve some of said area. Microsoft has had many problems with Windows but yet it has helped advance human civilization to areas one couldn't imagine 30 years ago. If someone had said to Bill Gates that since there were problems with his software he should just ignore it and focus on something else we would be in a far different world. Why must we simply ignore an idea once it has been brought forth? Isn't there room to modify an idea, and reintroduce it as better? Maybe even do that a few times until the idea is fully ready to be implemented? Nature has done this with evolution. Why not with ideas?
If we are ever going to get anywhere in making this world more livable for ourselves we need to recognize that there is plenty of room to improve things, sometimes even after the fact. An idea need not be a perfect one without faults to be effective. Progress in small increments is still progress, and we should embrace any opportunity to move forward. How about we demand that politicians grow a pair and do something for us instead of worrying about their reelection? Wait, there might be some politicians who disagree with that so forget it; not a good idea.
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