"GOOD" GOVERNMENT

I have a message about governance to anyone who fancies him/her self making decisions that affect the lives of others whether it be at a federal, state, municipal, corporate or community level.

Try this on for size.....

The purpose of worthy government is --
To gather a nation together
And lead it from where it is
To where it wants to go..

The purpose of government in Australia, however, has become to stay in government, by hook or by crook, regardless of the cost to the people it pretends to serve.

Do not be surprised, therefore, that the herd is fractious, bristling, afraid for its welfare, and mightily pissed off at the paucity of leaders on offer..

I learned this stuff on Anna Plains, a cattle station in the Kimberly. No amount of testosterone, horses, bull-wagons, cattle prods, bulldust (aggressive or florid), righteous paternalism and cracking stock whips will ever make up for lack of Leadership.

I'm looking, I fear in vain, for a leader..

PS. The first step is to "gather a nation together". Until that is done, it is absolutely pointless trying to move to the next steps. You do not gather any group of sentient beings together by splitting them up – by perpetuating Position and Opposition, by pitting groups of beings against each other. Those are the mechanics of Control, not of Leadership. Too much of the misrepresentation, obfuscation, manipulation, fear-mongering and outright bullying that presently passes for leadership is excused on the grounds of “I'm doing this for your own good. This is what's right for you.”

I mentioned above that a leader seeks to lead the herd where it wants to go. To do otherwise is to court resentment and eventual failure.

Back to Anna Plains.....a bore broke down in the Great Sandy Desert. Without water, cattle will perish within two days. Repairs were going to take longer than that, so the cattle were driven for 8 hours over the stony terrain to another bore, where water was plentiful, and grass grew up to their bellies. The next day we drove straight to the broken bore to begin repairs only to find the cattle herd back there! Overnight the cattle had left an oasis of food and water and hiked back to possible death – because that bore was their territory -- it was familiar. I learned that day that cattle are nearly as stupid as humans.

If your herd doesn't want to go where you want to take them, you have a pre-selling job to do before you even take the first step in creating any permanent shift.