Provincial inactivity

[Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir]

Hello fellow Atatürk’s,
Every time I visit our province, I am always disappointed by the inactivity of the citizens and a lack of drive and passion to build a community here and to improve the province and the sense of belonging.

I believe that together we can, and must, come together and rebuild our province to be a place we can take some pride in, and have fun discussing and debating provincial matters, from politics to cultural. But this is something we need to do together.

So, to that end I am suggesting that this post becomes a forum for any citizens of the province to come forward and discuss ideas for rejuvenating the province and bring life to it once again. I have some ideas myself that I will put here once a bit more fleshed out, but the point of this is for us to come together and work to improve our activity and Talossan lives in this province. As we should take more pride in the province where we live, and this is what I aim to try to ignite in the province.

So, feel free to post any ideas and suggestions, and let’s have a debate on this, to help move the province out of its lull and help it to become a thriving hub of activity. As the province deserves to be.

Antaglha

[Sevastáin Pinátsch]

Coming together and working is indeed something to be encouraged.

As I recall, I once lobbied quite hard to reform the constitution of this province to make it more simple to participate in provincial affairs. I actually drafted a new one for comment, based on a model of another province. There wasn't a lot of cooperation or engagement here. Quite the opposite, in fact.

My lesson learned from that is that occasionally there is new blood with new drive in this province, and with that comes a brief window of opportunity. You can embrace the enthusiasm of recent citizens and work with them to make things happen, or... not. Either way, potential activists will get a message: change is possible, or unlikely; people are interested in working with them, or not.

Since becoming Senator, on a regular basis I have continued to remind citizens of my availability to consider their views (by public or private message) when voting the Clark. How many of us in Atatürk are making some small effort to remind others that we are present?

I fear that a lot of Atatürkers may be doing much the same as you are... dropping by occasionally to see if there are signs of activity, seeing little, and leaving frustrated... but not seeing themselves as culpable for the lack of activity.

Don't get me wrong -- I am pleased to see you here. I'd be glad to see you more regularly. But anyone that drops by and is saddened by the lack of activity should leave a little something before they go: a story, an idea, a suggestion, some news, even just some well wishes. Anything. Some trace that they still exist, and visited here.

I know we're busy. I'm, busy, too. But if each citizen wrote even one message only once a year, this place would have evidence of life like I've never seen.

[Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir]

Jul 5, 2018 6:43:48 GMT -6 Sevastáin Pinátsch said:

Coming together and working is indeed something to be encouraged.

As I recall, I once lobbied quite hard to reform the constitution of this province to make it more simple to participate in provincial affairs. I actually drafted a new one for comment, based on a model of another province. There wasn't a lot of cooperation or engagement here. Quite the opposite, in fact.

My lesson learned from that is that occasionally there is new blood with new drive in this province, and with that comes a brief window of opportunity. You can embrace the enthusiasm of recent citizens and work with them to make things happen, or... not. Either way, potential activists will get a message: change is possible, or unlikely; people are interested in working with them, or not.

Since becoming Senator, on a regular basis I have continued to remind citizens of my availability to consider their views (by public or private message) when voting the Clark. How many of us in Atatürk are making some small effort to remind others that we are present?

I fear that a lot of Atatürkers may be doing much the same as you are... dropping by occasionally to see if there are signs of activity, seeing little, and leaving frustrated... but not seeing themselves as culpable for the lack of activity.

Don't get me wrong -- I am pleased to see you here. I'd be glad to see you more regularly. But anyone that drops by and is saddened by the lack of activity should leave a little something before they go: a story, an idea, a suggestion, some news, even just some well wishes. Anything. Some trace that they still exist, and visited here.

I know we're busy. I'm, busy, too. But if each citizen wrote even one message only once a year, this place would have evidence of life like I've never seen.

I am just getting back to Talossan affairs after a prolonged period of inactivity due to struggles with my mental health. But as you have in the past, I have tried to change the province for the better, but mainly due to mental health and other issues I wasn’t able to follow through (nor focus on what you were doing at the time with constitutional reform due to this, as that is something I do remember)
But my drive to help re-energize the province hasn’t faded and I am now back and trying to push for it again and am happy to work with others on this. Which is why I have created this thread, to do such that. I may need to take longer than I perhaps should on replying as I still have ongoing issues, but I do intend to be as regular as I can be from now on, as I have missed Atatürk and Talossa.

Also, one thing I think is lacking in the province, apart from what you have mentioned, it a lack of vision and drive for the province, but once that has been found then I think more engagement would be easier for people once we are working towards something and have a common goal.

Also, is myself reaching out in this manner not a sign of a possibility of change at this point?
By the way, the lack of inactivity has something I’ve only just noticed, as I really have not visited Talossa until recently apart from the occasional look in and update to fellow Talossan’s on what’s going on. But how you have put how I have treated the province isn’t the case, yes, it is something I’ve observed, but not the reason for my inactivity. I just needed to focus on myself more and was not up to being involved in Talossan affairs due to reasons already stated. But it isn’t the lack of activity that has driven me away, tbh I think that is a fun challenge we need to address rather than something to drive me away. But other issues have prevented me from perusing this for a couple of years.

But if you’re happy and willing to engage in achieving change then feel free to post ideas here and others too, and hopefully we can come up with something our province is happy with and deserves.

[Sevastáin Pinátsch]

I hope you are feeling better and are able to spend more time here.

There is a more active population here than the number of posts suggest. Looking at the turnout for the most recent election, 18 Atatürkers appear on the list "Citizens who voted so far":

www.talossa.ca/files/notvoted.php

I'd love to see even another 17 unique messages a year. I'd like an opportunity to actually engage with the people here. As a politician, it feels odd to represent the interests of a mostly silent constituency. And as a person, I'd appreciate more camaraderie.

We don't actually have to change the constitution to effect meaningful change in this province. I'd actually be more than satisfied if we worked harder at just nurturing some relationships here and discovering what our culture here is... making it up as we go along, if we have to.