NEW DIRECTION

⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION Ed. No. 174

- GETTING THE RIGHT TARGET IN OUR SIGHTS

WHO IS DONALD TRUMP?

(More importantly who is Jasper Johns?)

Artwork: Target (1967)

Artist: Jasper Johns

Medium: colour lithograph

Size: 33cm × 33cm (image)

PIC: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

TRUMP IS ONLY THE RESULT

OF A DEEPER PROBLEM

Well it had to come sooner or later.

(“Inflation hurts us all, and it’s one man’s fault” Sydney Morning Herald April 30, 2026)

Blaming Donald Trump or Benjamin Netanyahu for the world’s current economic or political mess is the default mode of a human race prisoner to a very narrow deeply programmed view of “who’s responsible”.

We are all responsible. When we are better prepared to accept more individual responsibility for our own individual values, wants, needs and desires then we’ll get the leaders we better deserve rather than the leaders we currently deserve.

Looking at a bigger picture though in Australia we must be doing something right. We should be very appreciative having leaders of the calibre of Anthony Albanese (Federally),

Chris Minns (State) and Clover Moore (Locally).

They are the stuff of balanced and fair leadership.

Could it be that they are simply a reflection of our better selves?

I’m aware there will be many dissenters from this view but I know what I see.

Trump and Netanyahu are the result of a deep worldwide unhappiness that needs focus and attention for a healing with no one other than our own selves individually.

King Charles was correct in his recent speech to the Americans when he spoke of “fostering compassion and promoting peace”. That begins within ourselves.

But it seems that so few are prepared to take on the challenge of their own life.

And it is a big challenge. Too much darkness in our world presently.

By the way King Charles was certainly demonstrating at his presentation in the US Congress the lucid, articulate, wholistic, considered, informed, humorous, civil, humane, well mannered human being that he is... and always has been.

So who is Donald Trump?

The much more important targeted question is who are YOO?

The focus should be on us not him. - Neville Williams

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