Perhaps it is dawning on us that the problems in our world are becoming too great to be left in the hands of a few to solve. I’ve no doubt that Barack Obama, for example, would love to curtail gun rights in America but embedded in the DNA of too many Americans is the idea that it is their right to bear arms. The evidence clearly shows, however, that the maturity to bear those arms is not matched across the population. Likewise the recent booing of the French President on his arrival in Nice is only going to make the problem worse.
You reckon he has it within his capability to make us humans kinder and more caring and responsible for our own lives? He’s not the Messiah. Both the problem and the solution is us. The best that all of our elected leaders can do is encourage us to search for our better selves. The alternative is to turn us into a police state. No one wants to live in those stifling conditions.
Booing, unrealistic expectations of elected leaders and an immature assertion that we are so very right is what makes us so very, very wrong.
The individual perpetrators in Orlando, Dallas and Nice had become completely disconnected from their deeper selves. The reasons for why this may have happened is very much open for discussion. The blame game though has to stop.
Neville Williams
Darlinghurst
