Governmental Change

It really is frustrating to see how stubborn and resistant to change governments, companies, and pretty much any large group of people as a whole really are. I suppose it may likely be a natural tendency of any grouping of a population once it reaches some certain size. This doesn't, however, make it any less frustrating to consider how things might be vastly improved upon only to realize how innately difficult it would be to implement.

Progress can be defined as advancement or change in an attempt to reach perfection. It is this definition that requires any government we set up to allow, encourage, and embrace change even if it may be radical in some ways. In some sense, we must even demand that our cultures, governments, and societies exhibit constant and never ending change in hope of progress. If you look long and hard enough, you can easily come to the conclusion that even some of the U.S. founding fathers understood that progress required eventual change in the government they were attempting to build.

As some people have mused;

"If pros and cons are opposite, is progress the opposite of congress?"

Sure, this statement is mixing one specific definition of progress with a completely different definition of congress but it does still bring up a fair point. If we want to embrace the continual progress of our entire species, we cannot accept any one method of government and society as the end all solution. While at one point in time the form of representative democracy set in place in this country was a novel and brilliant idea, that in no way means it will never become outdated or begin to hinder our societal progression. Because of this, I believe the best way to become less stubborn and resistant to change just may be for all of us to wholeheartedly accept change.

This is only the beginning

I've begun to realize that a fair many of us in this world are beginning to change how we see things. Deep inside ourselves a lot of thoughts, feelings, and open questions are mixing about just waiting to be considered and paid attention to. Not enough of us, however, are actually putting forth the effort to think about our thoughts. I intend to utilize this tool our collective minds have devised, which we call a blog, to attempt to look at myself and record these thoughts. I hope this will in turn help others elsewhere to do the same. If we don't take the time to think internally and know ourselves, then this phenomenon known as consciousness is nothing more than a by-product created by the advanced evolution of a great bundle of nerve cells and synapses.