Two Steps to Better Citizenship and to Better Government

This is an introduction to a two step way to better governance

Taking one step beyond the step beyond takes one far:

                    Try this method on one of the questions below. Say something about the method in "comments" below this post. Or, better yet, say something specific about one of the questions.

                    Try your best to give an answer two one or two of the questions below. Then, considering the question and your answer to it, consider a useful next step which you could take. Briefly, that is the two step method.

Here are some starting questions for you. You can pretend that they are your own:

~ How do I begin to trust?

~ How might I evaluate the air I breath?

~ Who can I talk with about these questions?

~ What do I know about how our local water problems are being solved?

~ Who around me covers local political doings around us and passes on the info?

~ Why do bond issues keep being past even though we know that they increase our common debt.

~ How do I find answer to questions about citizenship, government, governance and the like?

~ How can I get useful answers from a source that knows more about what is going on than I do?

~ How am I getting my questions answered?

~ As we lapse into ignorance about the doings and happenings around us, what is becoming of us.

What can I do to take better care of myself: socially, politically, as a citizen, as part of my community?

~ How do I usefully identify local problems which effect me? I mean our real local, critical, long range situations now?

~ What is democracy good for? 

~ How do I tell how one thing is truer than another?

~ How can I keep in better touch with with the doings of our town, city, county, or state? 

~ How can I more usefully co-operate with others?

~ How do I show up?

~ How do I participate?

~ What now links. public officials to voters?

~ With whom do I talk it over? Or, Who do I talk about it with? 

~ How do we form a common understanding of that which is important to us now?

~ Who are we?

~ What am I willing to do to take better care of myself as a part of a community, as a citizen, politicly, socially.

~ Where might usefully show up?

~ What real question of mine will I find answers to?

                    You could find notions, points of views, and a few facts among the other posts essays, and videos on this blogsite useful and/or interesting. There are several apps here to help you explore this site.

                    Take care of yourself.

                                                                                        bye for now,

                                                                                        Richard