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Maslow 2020 and an Intangible Toolkit for Collective Improvement
For the last few years, I’ve been licking my wounds, lamenting and hoping for a change of political direction. A little leadership, please. I’ve been ranting to friends, bellowing into Facebook echo chambers and cancelling any contracts I have with businesses with links to you know what (starts with B.) And if I needed a reminder of how ineffective it has all been then I just need to look to the latest election here in the UK. It’s time to change tactics or just give up, step back into my silo and concentrate on my herb garden, patisserie skills or language or something. Relax a bit instead of winding myself up all the time about the state of the world. That does sound tempting but I can’t. I have the words of one of my favourite resistance heroes echoing through my head.
“Night comes — with sobs, with despair, and with rebellion. I do not accept my powerlessness” (Outwitting the Gestapo, Lucie Aubrac, 1994, p89.)
This from a woman operating as a resistance fighter in occupied France, whose husband had been arrested and sentenced to death by the Gestapo under an alias name. Had his real name been discovered and his religion his entire family (including his young child) would have been sentenced to die at a concentration camp, such was the fate of his parents. If Lucie Aubrac, at this moment of despair will…
