I wonder, people sense a complexity about todays world. All possible causes aside, but this feeling turns into frustration and mixed feelings when there is no framework for thinking and no direction of solution or even understanding.

Even in the current credit crisis I find that media is not giving a clear understanding of the dynamics that are at play in these turbulent times. Meanwhile Central Banks are executing plans that undoubtedly must follow a plan, a plan that is the result of a thinking framework. Why is this thinking framework not communicated in the media? Even in yesterday’s news our financial minister Wouter Bos seemed to dodge direct questions about his concrete plans, turning to an analogy of firefighters first fighting the fires and only than measuring collateral damage. It seems to me that people in distress are eagerly waiting for some explanation. At least offer them a framework to think within.

Then the other day I was passing the window of the Scheltema Bookstore. Large on display was Thomas Friedman’s new the book: Hot Flat and Crowded. An answer to Al Gore’s problem. An immediate bestseller. People seem to be in search of an answer to act upon. But maybe I’m wrong, and is night rest regained by the thought of consuming green energy.