be complex

Every year the world grows more and more complex. Technology, politics, economics, the environment all these systems grow more and more intricate.  In a complex world intricate systems cannot be managed with a simplistic, black and white, right and wrong style of thinking.  There is a need for those leaders in the systems that are the engines of the modern world to have critical thinking skills, an intellectually nuanced way of balancing and weighing options with respect to the influence of actions taken here, effecting situations there.

We are now in a situation where there are those in the electorate that have no appreciation for the intricacies that are woven into the fabric of the twenty-first century.  They honestly believe that present day situations can be handled with yesterday’s ideologies.  This election – congressional as well as presidential – is about understanding the complexities of our times.

The question now is: are those Americans who are intellectually capable of appreciating the world’s situation also intellectually capable of appreciating their need to voice their concerns in the voting booth.