I think regardless of your title, your
job position, or your "years of experience," you can still
be incompetent. The single most annoying things I'm faced with when
trying to launch this green enterprise is how resolved people are to
taking too much time and piling on red tape. I don't understand why
there are so many barriers to progress. One idea; take a run down,
either abandoned or neglected property, and fix it up into a zero
energy building where it can both showcase to and teach people what
they can do in their homes or businesses. This simple, seemingly
reasonable idea involves permits, liability, zoning, petitioning,
"pre-planning," and a scavenger hunt for people with the
know how and (they say time) Will to do it. Some variant of this
process applies to other green goals as well as the dead and gone
groups of IU can testify.
I believe the reason this is so
complicated is because those in charge allowed themselves to form
their policies and regulations from a point of fear and greed. As a
consequence, those that want to appeal to this system to push an idea
that is even supported by the "informed" and "leaders"
of the system must jump the proverbial hoops of people who still fly
cereal into their mouths. I'm not saying projects don't need to be
monitored and people shouldn't show evidence that the money and time
they're getting is going to the right place. I am saying that someone
shouldn't feel comfortable telling me it might be after I graduate
before I get through all the b/s and get to start that project. This
is one of the baseline reasons I am driven to do things better. I
think when people 10, 20, or 30 years older than me speak about how
naive people my age are, they are speaking to the ineptitude they've
encountered, the arbitrary barriers to progress, and the resolve one
must develop in order to let go of the majority of their dreams. Keep
your advice.
It's sickening how comfortable people
are once they've reached the point of "getting by." Good
job, your the head, chair, manager of "Insert Important Title"
and even you can't do anything but point to someone who may be
willing to take more responsibility.
