How to make progress on difficult issues

Problem solved.

I knew that would get your attention. Can you pick out a current example? I wanted to pick out a couple of examples that seem to be on opposite paths but share the same platform. Let’s start with an ongoing problem that has made some progress toward a solution. The prejudice that exists toward mixed-race and same-sex couples. It is still a prevalent issue and honestly one that I have struggled with, but I can see a concerted effort that I think will chip away at this issue. I and I am sure others have clearly noticed that television networks have in many of their productions a cast that portrays these couples in the normal flow of daily living. I resented it at first, but I have realized that the coordination and production of this effort took a complex and long-standing societal problematic union and developed a simple path toward a solution. Progress.

Now let’s look at another long-standing problem that everyone would agree on with no measurable progress toward a solution. Gun violence.

I was taught to shoot and hunt by my uncle and I cherish those memories. He taught and demonstrated to respect the dangerous potential of the guns and still enjoy their use responsibly. The shared platform here are the network productions that portray reoccurring flow of guns being used in random, embellished and violent fashion. The context of these productions displays power and control, which plays right into a solution for those with low self-esteem and a desperate need for control, influence and revenge.

Network gun violence has been recognized as an ongoing terrible source of bad influence forever, but it is more persuasive and prevalent now than ever. Let us pattern a solution that follows the logic of the previous example.

Bruce Hendricks

Bartlett