LIFE IS THE CULTURE WE CREATE

To turn the TV these days is to see the wide experiences, interpretations and beliefs about the world today. They are extreme, contradicting and not reconsilable. Entrenched conversations tend not to end well, and many just avoid others all together.

When disaster does hit us where it hurts, like school shootings, opioid deaths, child trafficking, and yet another political scandel where a Politician used his power and influence to gain unfair control over a situation, we hear the noise as proof that our beliefs are right, and others are not doing what needs to be done to correct what has to be corrected. We get angry and upset.

This is true with our culture today, on all sides of the aisle.

The stages of grief send everyone spinning in a multitude of directions that adds more friction to the mix. The ineffectiveness and hopelessness just feeds the fire. We know that we are dependent, and have little power to change all the mayhem we face regularly. Thus blame and fustration adds to our daily stress.

That is not good for anyone, and does nothing.

One thing that Chris and I have learned from living in remote locations or on boats, which are off grid and connected to nothing outside, is the fact: "Survival is dependent on a functioning system." In that environment, all things are dependent directly on your actions, your ability to deal with crisis and being able to find solutions. Chris has said it thousands of times, in a hurricane, he would rather be alone on an island where he is dependent on fixing the damage and getting his own systems up and running after the storm passes.

Societies today are so interdependent and relations are complicated. Being able to detect the problem, control our reaction and find a solution is a skill being lost. Dependency and blame is the name of the game.

Its easy in society to forget that how to survive on our own. We plug into all the givens in our society and let everyone else worry about a system working. We go to the faucet and water comes out. We dont have to walk a great distance and carry a bucket for our daily usage. We turn on the lights when its dark and turn on the oven when we are hungry. Food is ready for us at the market or a wide range of restaurants in our local neighborhoods. We no longer have to travel to community centers to find out about the world. One flip of a button, and everything is at our finger tips. Life is easy, but at what cost.

Therefore, its no wonder that when things seem to be falling apart or wrong, we are mad at those we depend on to make them right. What if we disagree with how they go about taking care of us, or the prices charged to do so. Facebook is a perfect example. We have used it for free all these years, and now we are mad because the information that we freely put Facebook is used by Facebook for profit, gain and influence. We are the commodity, and have no say on their usage.

Along the way, we have become complacent in our dependency. We would rather spend all our time in straw conversations arguing pointless conversations than actually doing the work to make things better.

A functioning situation is one where all the parts work together to ensure each system achieves its goals. It does not work when the systems fight against eachother and shut down in disagreement. There is a great need to understand the parts and make sure they are all working in a harmonious way.

As Strategic Consultant with a worldly experience in off grid systems and dynamic relationships, the dysfunction and lack of corrective action is blatent. Our choice is to dedicate our services to those wanting to build up a better life and start projects that invest in stronger families and communities!

Find your passion, join positive communities that are dedicated to a better world. Unplug from the hate. Find ways to empower better options and improve what is going on in our backyards and around the world.

Thank you, Debbie Cloud