Upgrade common sense to common understanding

Senses and emotions will completely rule our lives if we allow it to happen. Self awareness and self restraint are important for us to stay in control of our actions, rather than letting lower thinking take control. Lower thinking is how we find ourselves in undesirable situation. This is true for personal circumstances as well as grand scale situations, like that of a country. We "make due" with "the lesser of two evils", when the smart thing to do would be to find a completely different/better solution all together.

Convenience is a double edged sword; it leads to complacency, but greater contrasts the problems of a situation. When desire is fulfilled quickly it creates a subconscious expectation. When the expectation goes unmet, the reason 'why' quickly falls into understanding.

I see this pattern in politics and law enforcement a lot (too much). It seems to me that people have a problem with the self. We like to have other people solve our problems when they are over our head to deal with. But the fact that they are over our head is statement. By admitting awareness of something, we have just revealed our capacity to begin to understand it.

This means accepting responsibility for being able to understand something, or denying it - which is irresponsible. In this way politics and law enforcement are inherently flawed. We put our stock in others, knowing for our stock to get to those 'others' it has to go through a corrupt system. But we pretend and play along enough until it becomes inconvenient for ourselves. It's a bad joke that stopped being funny after the US founding fathers left their royally infested country to start the united states.

And even that was irresponsible. The united states is built on foundations of genocide. People complain about who is running for president, but what they're really complaining about is their own position of weakness. And it's 100% by choice. We don't get to choose our circumstances 100%, but we are completely and totally in control of how we act and react. I'm saying too many people choose to lower their heads and complain, instead of rise to the challenge of decency and actually do something themselves. Something which would give them nothing to complain about.

I'm not suggesting "change the world", I'm suggesting  change the self!