It's complicated...

Hi everybody, I'm posting this blog here today just because I didn't have enough space to answer a colleague of mine on an interesting subject we started. Go here to see the previous thread. http://snipurl.com/6agit


That sounds too black & white. It's much more complicated than that.

This topic, of course, is a very wide and never-ending discussion. Having lived in a few different countries with different systems (democratic and not) in the world, I can sum up that some things are good to regulate (so set the bar or standards and create an equal playing field) and some are not. The wisdom to decide what to regulate, when and what not, is the key.

For instance: Other governments in the world have regulated banking rules much tighter, in order to avoid a fiasco, the US is in now. The US bailout is an excuse, now paid pay the people, screwed up by the private, too loosely regulated, banking companies.

Don't get me wrong. We love free enterprise, free trade and free markets. But none of them are really free. They all have rules. And it's those set of rules the society agrees upon in order to be and get the best out of it. Therefore it shows in what condition a country or society is, when things break down.

How, for example would you evaluate the patriot act? The government stepped in and didn't even ask. The ones that had the power to make the decisions pro or con, didn't even read it, they were sleeping and lazy. Witnesses of the time will concur.

As long as there are humans and their societies, there will be regulations and rules of some sort or else we cannot survive. Anything in the universe has regulations. And rules change as everything changes. The key is to be flexible and adapt and change again in order to flourish and survive. The only constant is change - nothing stays the same. And if you don't have/make a plan, someone else will. So the question is how much can we or do we want to be involved in the process?

You say we shouldn't let our government mess things up. I agree. But our government is "just" our representation we voted for, so we can go about our lives and jobs. Otherwise we'd have to sit there everyday and negotiate. So either we get up there and get gritty ourselves or we shush and take some .... for the compromises we need to make in order to live our lives (in abundance by the way).

Democracy is the most complicated system and usually has a shelf life of 200 years. So I'm glad for every extra day we can speak up and say what we want.

Or can we?

Thanks in advance for having a great conversation.