Matt Chocqueel-Mangan's blog

The problems that matter most to me are societal – based on basic social / human needs. It seems indisputable that these types of problems;

1. are problems that impact us all
2. are not necessarily problems in every society
3. are problems because our society doesn’t have a system in place to address them properly

Those, surely, are facts. Nothing controversial.  I would also add that these problems;

• are not being addressed in a coordinated, non-emotional, non-political way
• are problems because the greatest problem solvers are not being attracted to the greatest problems

I invite you to comment on whether you agree with those last two points, but whether you do or not – what are the solutions? What is the actual problem and how will we know when it’s solved? How can we attract the best minds to work on this? What would need to happen? Where do we start?

Rather than just looking for a solution, we need to be sure we really understand the problem – the real problem – the root, if there is one. For this to happen we must surely join up our collective thinking and pool our learning. If we could ever get to that stage, we would then be in the incredible position of being able to ask the question of how to solve it – to present that question to the many amazing thinkers and problem solvers around the world. But only when we really know the problem can we ask the question of how to solve it.

So what is The Question?

This, simply, is the reason I have started this blog. In order to get there, I simply aim to participate in the discovery of The Problem by investigating current theories about how societies really work.

Can you help? If you have suggestions for leading theories or discussions please add your comments.