So, You Say You Want Change? Really?

There is much hand-wringing over the violence and chaos of Chicago’s inner city neighborhoods and the fiscal crises facing the state, and we are led to believe that people really want solutions.  The evidence would say otherwise.  While those who cannot escape the situation might like change, our politicians clearly do not. Real solutions to the problems exist but are simply unpopular and unacceptable to those in power, so do not expect to see any change soon. 

A second reality is that many of us have detached ourselves from truth.  Sadly, critical thinking and logic are lost arts.  There is a culture-wide phenomenon of “looking the truth in the eye and denying it.”  Stability, peace and prosperity do not exist by accident, and neither does chaos.  They are the consequence of specific choices we make.  So long as we reward corrupt politicians by electing and reelecting them to office we will see corrupt policies implemented.  As long as we support indolent people from the public coffers, diligence will be discouraged.