To Reform or start over.

Is it more productive to start off with a clean slate and have the latitude to do things right from the beginning--or rehabilitate a failed system that is rotting from within?

In rehabilitating an old disfunctional system, one must educated the participants as to what is wrong and motivate them to change for their own good.

In starting over from scratch with a clean slate--one can immediatly have a fresh approach that alligns squarely with the intent and demands of the original blueprint.

The problem as I see institutions is that they become rotten and poisoned at the hands of their leaders. The members or participants either are unwilling to oversea the leadership, trust the leadership far more than they deserve, or fail to acknowledge mans inherant weakness when it comes to power and control. It does not take long for the leaders to begin considering their own needs above and beyond the needs of the organization and reason the system exists to begin with. soon the interests and needs of the members or participants fail to become the reason for the organization.

This can apply to all areas of a society--government, education, religion, public works, national defense, public welfare---any area where society establishes an institution to organize and fulfill the needs of its members.

When an institution loses itself to the selfish needs of its leadership, the members and participants soon loose hope and only those with a weakened self will remain confident in the success of the endeaver. All those who sense rot remain members in name only. Their participation becomes robot like with no belief that the planned results will really bear fruit.

The blueprint may hold the perfect plan but the machinery to accomplish it becomes less and less efficient as the rot strangles its ability to perform.

I'm leaning towards the clean slate approach. Trying to reform an old rotted system made up of robots for members and self centered leaders in charge takes more luck than skill. It seems like it is better to have a new vibrant organization meeting the true needs of its members and participants, than a gigantic lifeless monolith on the brink of collapse.This can be said of every institution of our society.

I see Yodi wagging his tail. he must be in agreement.