“How is the utopian health ministry look like?”
Most of us who are asked upon this question, often respond by frowning in silence. When I thought harder in my frown a picture came in mind:
Nothing.
Yes, that is how the health ministry look like in that picture — non-existent. Just because a health ministry exist in our current day-to-day world doesn’t mean there are reasons for them to continue their existence today as ordinary affairs.
“What is now proved was once only imagin’d.” (Blake 1908). To breach the societal norms and models there must be anti-authoritarian characters who spear head the next wave of change. People who are known as creative geniuses in present day society, such as Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein and Picasso, can be described as anti-authoritarian. They did not take established structures for granted but started questioning. The questions they started to ask led to discovery of small parts of the society that needs to be changed. From the change of small lead to the change of great. One can find in the text Daodejing it teaches about complex system composed of small parts:
“A terrace nine stories high arose from a layer of dirt; a journey of a thousand leagues began with a single step.” (Ivanhoe 2001)
During the Warring States period, the time around when Daodejing claimed to be written, these words are addressed to the ones shuffled by war; the ones who are embedded in the societal fabric but desire for change. The same is observed in creative geniuses in their desire to mould the world around them. Before one believes current constructs can be challenged and changed entirely, change is not ready to arrive.