Dear Regular (and the occasional dropper by) Newsletter Readers,
I hope this edition of our looooooong running weekly newsletter reaches you in only the finest of fettle and still somewhat optimistic that the leaders of our respective countries will eventually realize that we should all learn from our past mistakes and invest the product of making those mistakes into helping to properly bring the Covid 19 problem under control once and for all. Unfortunately, it now seems that certain world organizations (and we all know WHO some of them are) seem to believe that it’s far more important to start to investigate themselves, as well as others, to see where things went wrong to determine who should be held accountable for the shambolic performances so far put in, before the current situation has been brought under control.
However, by having independent bodies of people investigate their practices at this juncture this is saying to me that these organizations know they have failed and they know that they have to accept a certain amount of accountability for their failures, so why not try to garner some public sympathy now rather than later and what better way of doing it than to have themselves and others investigated. If these world organizations and individuals just spent more time focusing on dealing with resolving the matters at hand by working together globally and in a reasonable manner, instead of just individually and often in a manner that is seen to be questionable at times, they would not have to waste precious time, money and resources to divert attention away from themselves and others through carrying out investigations that should be carried out at a more appropriate time.
Frustratingly, the leaders of organizations like the WHO and other such world organizations do not seem to fully understand the importance of maintaining openness, transparency and clear communication, both internally as well as with the general public as they try to do the jobs that they have been set up to do, perhaps if they did value the importance of these traits a bit more then there would be less of a reason for them to run to push the “let’s call for an investigation to determine how accountable we are” button every time they reach a point where they start to point the finger at each other inside to see who’s to blame for what went wrong. This lack of openness, transparency and also inability to communicate properly prevents proper leadership from taking place and as much of the planet’s population now gets this it’s gradually pushing more and more of us (myself included) into wanting to move away from our so-called modern societies, escape the rat race if you will, and live in a space, either by oneself or with family members, in which one feels happy, safe and secure inside.
We should be able to feel happy, safe and secure without having to retire into our own personal spaces; I do remember a time when I did feel all of those things within the modern day society I was living in and I liked the challenge of being part of the rat race and the opportunities it provided me with and I took them. However, either I have become more skeptical and more cynical as I’ve gotten older or the world has become less of an inviting place to want to venture out into (I think a mixture of the two), but the only space I now feel happy, safe and secure inside is within the third of an acre or so of the plot of land that I live on with my family.
As age is starting to creep up on me, my main concern is how the world will be when my two children are ready to venture out into it to make their marks or at least try; I do remember my parents telling me that that was their main concern when my brother and I were growing up. It’s the same concern every parent has I imagine, but of course you cannot stop the world evolving with every generation that passes, when the time comes you have to take the good with the bad and you have to go out there and as best as you can, with whatever armor you have on and weapons you have at your side, and fearlessly meet the world head on and do the best you can to survive.
I did set out this week with the intention of wrapping up with a poem about picking plums off a tree, but as I’ve waffled on more than I expected to about the current state of the world it’ll have to wait until next week. Until then, keep safe and keep hoping for the world to become a peaceful, safe and much more harmonious and pleasant place to live in.