I have long considered proposals and ideas to solve the problems we face. Not only here in the United States, but worldwide. What I see presented as new ideas are often just restatements of existing reality. A mere tinkering with this tax, or law, or regulation. Renaming this or that department.
Louisiana is a great one for this. They just changed the Louisiana Department of Film and Video in the Governors Film and Video Office. The difference? None. The policiies remain the same, the people running the agency remain the same. The ideas behind the system remain the same. What is the difference? The name. And to most people that means change enough. Why go with the future when you can have your past that you already know how it works.
Indeed, one problem with the way changes are proposed is that they are viewed as some sort of permament reordering of the stars. And when it is done at the federal level we get one size fits all. When at the state level we get a regionwide fits all. The lower the level of government the more likely an actual new idea will surface, and then spread.
So this section will look at some of the different proposals that are based on a slow reordering of the programs and systems in place, leaving time for consideration and reflection about how the ideas, the theory, actually meshes with the people who are living the lives affected.
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