Unfurling from the great introspection
In some parts of the world, like my home Australia and our cousins in New Zealand, there is an unfurling.
People are coming out of their homes, going to dining in limited numbers, and walking the beach at dawn.
There is a tentativeness to this..and an eagerness.
There is also a desire to not go back to so many things. Congested roads. Mind numbing work. Companies that showed their true colours of care-less-ness through their response to lock down.
It is a time to challenge the stories we have been told for so long that are now clearly not true. Stories like the government does not have money or the budget to pay for social security, amazing health care, top quality education.
My mind is currently being warped by the just-released book, The Deficit Myth, by Stephanie Kelton.
It outlines Modern Monetary Theory, MMT, which unpicks the story we have been told about the government running like a household – required to be fiscally responsible and not go into too much debt.
As we unfurl from what I have called the great introspection, we must ask much better questions, design much better models and change our mindset.
Rather than argue over the broken, to turn instead to the future we know is possible.
And to get to work on creating, designing and building that.
June 13th 2020
Photo taken June 13th, 2020
