The reception of voice

One of the fundamental parts of working together with people of varying mindsets is that both parties need to have the ability to listen to the other party. This seemingly simple action appears to be rapidly becoming a lost art in todays world. People seem unable to look across the invisible yet invincible lines they draw and see the other party as anything but a band of lying filthy mongrels.

Case in point, on the radio the other day I was listening to a interview with a lady who had apparently written a book and she was saying, on national radio, that anyone who voted for the other party in our national elections should be held responsible for their poor judgment and for the future turmoil and crisis that it would bring to the country.

First Impression: What the crap?
Second Impression: Are you kidding me? This is jaw dropping nuts!

Seriously though, read that again if you didn't get it the first time around. She wanted people to be held responsible for their political votes as though it was criminal offense. Now to be fair, it is true that those who elected Hitler, probably should have seen a little something coming (surprisingly, she compared the people who would vote other party as just such people), but we has human kind seem to be rather remarkably short sighted. We build our house on fault lines and in the shadow of volcanoes and then when people come by and tell us, "Hey guys, you may want to move for a bit. Things could get ugly." we say, "This house has been here for fifty years and it will be here for fifty years more!" Then the fault line shifts and obliterates fifty years of progress. Shocking.

We we get engrossed in our own ideologies, we tend to ignore any and all cries that something may be afoot. At times the best thing we can do is go to someone who we disagree with most if not all of the time and ask them, hey do you see anything wrong with what I'm doing? Obviously, be prepared for the answer, cause it isn't going to be pretty. The advantage of this is they don't see your world through rose coloured glasses, unlike yourself, but the downside is, they may hate you, and probably won't take such mind opening obersavtions from you as well as you do.

Generally the point I'm trying to get across, is we can be so blinded by our own dream world that we forget other people have perfectly working eyes and dream worlds of their own. If you get enough people to look at your situation from enough angles, the flaws in it will become more apparent. After finding said flaws you can take steps to correcting them.

A note to everyone though, just to get the ball rolling. We are? Human. What are humans (most of the time)? Imperfect. We make? Mistakes. What does this all mean? Any system made my human hands, and dream dreamed by a human mind, will have FLAWS. Deal with it. But what can we do? Rise up to the challenge, just becasue we are imperfect doesn't mean we have to be happy with that fate.