Change is the flavour of the times we currently inhabit, it seems, no matter what's involved.
In Canada, we operate right now under a minority government, and now there's the same outcome in the recent U.K. election...they call their outcome a "hung election".
In a parliamentary system, it might be that a minority government will be the most open and democratic, as all parties will have to listen to each other, and to work meaningfully with each other, item by item. All members elected will be needed. Maybe it's another example of the value of the individual voice, in the post-internet world?
Certainly, there is change with this election's outcome and it will have an effect on European Union decisions, too.
Debt, in all countries, is the big fear -- Greece may be the harbinger of what will occur in several other countries, both in Europe and elsewhere.
No country is protected...we are that "global village", described by Marshall McLuhan, in the 1970s. We are all affected, though perhaps at different times in the cycle.
The 21st Century is unfolding beneath our feet, and the schism between old forms (pre-1995,, say?) and the new formats is unbridgeable. We are all affected, no matter what we do or where we live.
The transition time is almost over, it appears. The shift we are living through will be looked back at as one of those historic divides in civilizations processes.
Writing on tablets obliterated oral cultures. Gutenberg's invention of the printing press disseminated learning to anyone who could read. The internet has erased time and geography and gender and race and age...it has spawned a further revolution with the social media communication channels.
Social media allows individuals to express their opinion, and to further comment with groups of like-minded individuals, to create conversations around particular points, and to do so from anywhere in the world.
The "ethernet" of the web world is an entity; the recent BBC News special on Super Power, which was highlighting the "clout" of the web world "citizens", was very interesting...try to catch it in replay!
So, the only constant in life is change, warned Thales and Heraclitis, back in the days of Ancient Greece's heyday.
Are you remembering to practice your peripheral vision?
Tunnel vision focus just keeps us locked into the worry and drama of a specific issue.
Backing up, allowing that wider 180 field of vision, allows us to notice what is fluttering there, just at the edge of our vision...that's where we can begin to use our creative power.
All of us have the ability to invent the interpretation of the path...it's the 21st century!
Lucky us!
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