Not Seeing the Solution
Too many people don’t want to see what is in front of them
by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ January 11. 2020
Seeing is what we are not doing. We have long demanded visibility into the the things that affect and, even, control our lives. This has been a long and contentious struggle for visibility and input into the management of our societies.
This produced the first written agreement to open that process to a select few with the English Magna Carta of 1215. This was an early effort to protect the rights of someone other than the monarch and extended family. It was an effort to give the feudal baron’s visibility and some say in any effort to remove their rights or affect the security. Needless to say it didn’t really work but it kept coming back and being extended.
Under the Provisions of Oxford in 1258, perhaps the first written constitution, the king was to rule through a council of twenty-four members overseen by a parliament. This was visibility and process input for a few of special rank but the concept was implemented. This was concurrent with the evolution of other forms of visibility in government administration by councils in European city states and representation by Estates of the Realm in France around 1025.
