I have a theory on decision making in communities. I need to complete a lot more research and reading to substantiate my theory, but instinct tells me it’s true.
Communities, just like people, suffer from attention deficit disorder.
Because of media and pop culture, people as a collective spend way too much time and energy in their contextual switching from policy-formation to policy-formation… from proposal-to-proposal…. This lack of focus results in hardly anything getting done meaningfully. I keep thinking back to the last time in history when a whole country was aligned towards a common mission. The only one I can remember is putting a man on the moon.
As a result, we never really fix any national (or global for that matter) social ills. More likely, we sandbag and flop around like a fish out of water, complaining about this or that.
I know this thought is premature and not exactly fact-oriented. But I wanted to throw it out there. Has anyone else ever had the same feeling?
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