RE: The art of governing a country.
I am exceedingly grateful for your voice of reason and heart. It inspires me, encourages me and shows me that we are not alone with how we think and feel. There are even many of us.
You have very interestingly illustrated how the misbelief that we believe to be constantly controlled and monitored by Big Brother inhibits and paralyzes us. It is more a mental construction, a voluntary prison in which man is imprisoned than a fact.
I experience my own chosen liberty very much in my work, where I make full use of my creative freedom. Nobody is there who suspiciously controls me and tells me how to do things. What has to do with the fact that I have few conflicts with colleagues and clients, because I don't see any. I am concerned with cooperation, mutual understanding and solving problems that need to be solved as soon as they fall within my sphere of influence.
I love your pragmatism in this respect very much and I believe that those who do it with equal courage are just not so loud and profile oriented and therefore one thinks they don't exist. They are less visible.
Sometimes my sense of mission is uncomfortable and I'm briefly unsure whether it should be that I blog. But then I read your contributions and come to the insight: Yes, it may be.
Thank you very much for these intelligent lines.
Absolutely, I've realized that there are mainly two types of people in such aspects; those who do things by appearance, to be good in the eyes of others; and those who do what they think they should do, even if that is judged wrong by others or if they don't receive any recognition.
The first ones have no decision, they do what people think is good and they will not do anything by themselves if nobody pays attention to them. The seconds often go unnoticed, they are invisible, but always, always, always, they are there, and they are a number not despicable at all.
That mainly, and although in the post I externalize the idea, it is also important to note that this is not reduced only to matters of governance. Its a complete philosophy of life. On a more personal level, if we stop worrying about things that we can't control, such as the past, the future, the lives of other people, how people see us, other people's responsibilities, etc., we can free ourselves from that mental construction, that voluntary prison in which man is imprisoned.
This is in fact what I thought when writing parts like:
Many and true thanks for all your compliments.