Consciousness for the Institution of Resilient Social Organization: A Formulation of Political Will Perspective

Abstract

Competent social organization remains the most critical basis/basics of threshold for political economy dynamism. No political society is blank out of creativity and creative will to innovate and renovate its future. But this comes with a political condition that such society engages in reflective knowledge and action upon the making of a competent political choice. The basic assumption underlining the paper is, a political economy that is competently creative and recreative will undoubtedly build a resilient institutional capability that demonstrate strong will and commitment to the nature of civilization it practically desires to build. Thus, political will exist at all times and places with two-sided character - dialectical and dualistic; hence there is nothing like lack of political will which demonstrably pass as an ideology of governance incompetence and state failure which could be misleading. The thesis is: there is political will for corruption and political will for anticorruption and political will to build strong institutions and political will to build weak institutions depending on the available political wisdom and interest. On this premise, the trouble with building institutions does not rest with natural resource curse and institutional curse but with human curse, hence inertia or creativity is not inexorable as what is critical is the human will. In the final analysis, it is pragmatic, spirited, patriotic, and competent men as consequence of constructive political will that builds strong institutions for resilient social organization, afterall, men are in significance the basis and basics of all self-discipline.