It takes great effort…

Here’s a truth that I’ve discovered for myself. It takes multiple amounts of effort to produce just a fraction of the results when what you are trying to do is move towards a vision, towards justice, towards a public good, and towards cultivating a healthy culture.

On the flip side, if takes very little effort to produce enormous results when you are moving towards mediocrity, injustice, selfish individualism, and a culture of abuse.

Why? I don’t know or understand why this is really. I’m sure there is not a nice simple explanation for this though. I think it’s a combination of many things. Mix in that many experience these terrible things in their life so often that they think they are normal. Mix in a desire for control. Mix in that these things are basically the summation of most of recorded human history. Mix in so much more. And add in that there are those who willingly participate because they think they will some how benefit from these terrible things. Here’s the secret — no one ever really benefits. Yet, lot’s of people put in effort to maintain them.

We should never expect that the path towards vision, justice, public good, and healthy culture will be easy. They take great effort with many frustrations and road blocks along the way. There will be people who get in the way on purpose because they are so addicted to the status quo that they think maintaining them is of utmost importance — never mind that life would improve by changing from these things.