Energy and Environment - Policy analysis research group
You know what I think. How policymakers address current international affairs. One day liberals came up with bank bail-out idea to save the economic crisis. They imagined the bank bailout would do miracle and a massive job creation, economic recovery would be promising. Now the new fashion is the government spending cut, no tax increase and austerity measure. Do policymakers know which one is right? Or they just do DECISION MAKING process based on Illusion.
New policymakers are stuck in their ideologies and utterly blind to realities. They are powerless to deal with the EU financial crisis, the US budget deficit and unemployment issues, Climate change, food price high, the news corp scandal and a few boarder disputes.
It seems that the policymakers are torn between wrong and wrong rather than right and wrong to decide.
It reminds me of Hamlet by W. Shakespeare (act 1, scene 4). Hamlet's inability to take decisive action ultimately results in tragedy.
So oft it chances in particular men
That for some vicious mole of nature in them -
As in their birth (wherein they are not guilty,
Since nature cannot choose his origin),
By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,
Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason,
Or by some habit that too much o'er leavens
The form of plausive manners - that these men,
Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,
Being nature’s livery or fortune's star,
Their virtues else (be they as pure as grace,
As infinite as man may undergo)
Shall in the general censure take corruption
From that particular fault. The dram of evil
Hamlet's definition of the subjective "right" differs drastically from Claudius' definition. Hamlet may care for human worth, and hatred evil. It might be a tragedy of moral idealism as much as a tragedy of reflection (Bradley)
It will do policymakers and all of us good:
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