In the early 1990s I was told “Be the Difference”. One person can change everything! Social Justice is achievable and equity is possible.
The people who shouted the most about the skills I had to create change gained a reputation, financial security and prospered. Pointing the team I worked with at so many projects.
My role was strategic fund raiser. Success followed easily and the money for projects began to flow, first thousands, then millions and hundreds of millions.
We weren’t the best, there are so many worked from the 1940s to today in this field who are now in need of that support.
Why? Because we forgot that the “Poor”, disadvantaged and ordinary have to remain with us if society is to get rich.
The Moral
Don’t forget about your personal future. Plan for a period of financial restriction. Life is about understanding that the rule of unintended consequences. It affects us all. Life gets in the way and time flies.
The Impact
Past triumphs don’t count, no one rewards you for what you did 10 or 20 years ago. People define you by what you do now. Society is ungrateful. People assume they have rights and its another persons responsibility to ensure them.
Here is a simple example, the DWP Jobcentre appraisal is you can not work and you need to receive Universal Credit. However, PIP is not accessible because a person on the end of the telephone decides you’re OK. The Assessor tells you it is not their decision but the truth is the information they provide forms the basis of a judgement call.
Put enough layers of decision making in place and everything can be excused as someone else should have picked it up.
The systemic failure of society is based on failure – failure to apply the “Golden Rule”. There’s no need for global poverty, but when the rich have revenue sources from exploiting others it prolongs poverty.
Solution
Surprisingly its not focus on what you need or want, its be content, understand that Governments come and go, they affect and effect very little and change nothing. So we need a new style of government.
One that can’t be corrupted. One that offers the essentials to all and guarantees education, food and shelter.
Better days are coming – however, all things that work for the benefit of society today are futile. We will always have the poor with us, the homeless, those deprived of an education.
Find your way – I read the Bible and look at the best life can offer now and although for all the years spent trying to fix society my family have little to show for it, we have a real hope for the future.