#18 Does the Patient Want to be Healed

Several years back when I first discovered that the "patient" (defined as governmental and other institutions), did not want to be healed, I was absolutely aghast.  I could not imagine that malfeasance was knowingly being condoned and rewarded.  I now understand how naive I was. 

While politicos, leaders and others have a vested interest in maintaining this status quo, I  suspect the average worker would want the "patient" healed.   Employees would like their workplace to make sense.  They would like to trust what their leaders are telling them, and be rewarded for their good work.  They want to feel like they are part of something good, bigger and outside of themselves.  I do believe that humans like (and maybe even need) to feel useful.   It is good for our mental well-being.

Despite employees and the general tax paying public wanting change, I personally do not see the "patient" changing without being forced to -- why should they?  They enjoy positions of power and adulation, they enjoy controlling people, spinning the facts and figures to suit their needs, and they are rewarded handsomely for doing so. 

Someone asked in a comment to this blogsite, "Where does the pathway (to change) start"?  And my answer to that is the pathway to change starts with and within each and everyone of us.  When large numbers of employees are sick and tired of being sick and tired and they collectively stand up and say ENOUGH -- that is when change will happen.     

In Malcolm Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point" he wrote about how there is one defining moment that makes something happen.  It can be the last straw, the largest number of protesters ever or something seemingly insignificant.  Tunisia's tipping point came on December 17, 2010, when a revolt was started as a result of a 20+ year old male food vendor who had his scale confiscated for supposedly not paying his fee.  He went to the office in charge of food vendors to complain -- they told him to pay his fee, which he had repeatedly paid again and again.  He was so frustrated and at his wits end, he bought gasoline and lit himself on fire in the middle of the street.   Others were so upset they took to the streets and months later overturned their despot leader. 

So the pathway to change begins with all of you -- from the bottom up.  There are great strengths in numbers -- and there are large numbers from the middle on down.  Individuals can be knocked off rather easily -- large numbers of workers cannot.  You are all a  force to be reckoned with.  So be the pathway -- be that change -- you will be amazed at what you can do!