What's next?

Now that all the excitement is over, how does it feel waking up in a whole new world? What? Not noticing any change? I wonder why?

For Americans, this was supposed to be the election that determines the future of the world, but my guess is that the rest of the world isn't all that impressed. After all, what's really going to be different? What should be different? We'll probably never know. No, the world today is a whole lot like the world from yesterday, and I'm guessing it's going to be a whole lot like tomorrow, unless we start doing some soul searching.

I don't know about you, but I'm pretty much fed up with all the business as usual. I mean, how do we go about putting things on more solid footing if those "in charge" are more concerned with their own position and "power" than with anything that really matters. I think it is high time that we just acknowledged that politics as we know it is part of the problem, and from that point, you're just never going to get a solution ... to anything. It's just not possible. If nothing else, the American election should have been a lesson to us all: traditional politics has outlived its usefulness. There's not even small incremental change. There is only the perpetuation of the powers that be doing what they do best: looking out for their own interests.

Well, believe it or not, I'm here to let you in on a little secret. Since they're all only in the way (and I don't care if we're talking about American, German, French, Chinese or Iranian politicians). It's time to just leave them to themselves (which is where they feel most comfortable), and it's time for the rest of us, the reasonable part of humanity, to just do what needs to be done. The real problem with political solutions is that they simply enable us to shirk our own responsibilities. We kick the problems "upstairs" and then complain when nothing happens. You can't rely on them, so why even start? I believe that if you ignore them, they eventually go away.

We really don't need them for much, and for the little we might be able to use them for, we can deal with those cases when they arise. No, the first step is simple and painless: just look around, identify what's broken, and start thinking about how to fix it ... yourself, or even better with others who have to deal with it too. Talk. Discuss. Find those of like mind and then start talking with those who haven't seen the problem yet. It doesn't have to be big, it has to be personal. It has to matter to you, to your family, to your friends, to your neighbors. Talk. Decide what needs to be done and just do it.

If you want a better world, start acting like you want one. It's really very simple.