# Conclusion
The situation that Forrester describes in the quotation at the head of this Chapter has changed little in the years since 1970, although now Piketty has gathered a considerable weight of evidence on the practice that has been tried and suggests in his book possibilities to investigate(Piketty 2020). I suggest that applying systemic logic should also be a guide on the path to better governing. A governing system is a system to regulate relationships. Relationships are the interconnections between things, very much the subject matter of systems thinking. Governing is a process of holding steady in a changing world, and the subject matter of cybernetics, exactly as both Plato and Ampere envisioned. What is surprising is that this approach seems entirely absent from the literature on governing, even from most current writing. When I analyse the workings of the United Kingdom government, the one I know the best, it accords to none of the three cybernetic laws, nor with the best practice of ensuring the well-being of all citizens or achieving right relationship to the natural world. Human society and its 19 relationships to the natural ecosystems of the planet is a hugely complex system, therefore, it seems to me that any attempt to analyse and discuss governance in any conceptual system other than a process systemic conceptual system is doomed to failure.
Most of us I would imagine wish to live in peace, without harming others, not being caught up in the stories which competing elites create to further their position, and being able to get on with our chosen lives. We need the communities in which we live to survive and be reasonably prosperous so that we can maintain our own livings. Those we elect to positions of governing, our representatives, have firstly the task of living in and listening to the society they represent. Societies change over time, and the stuff of government - constitution, laws, regulations - must change with it. Representatives have the task of using their knowledge and understanding to translate the changes into amendments to the stuff of government. This stuff of government should ensure that we can live in peace, without being harmed by others and to help maintain all the members of its communities. At root then, the task of our representatives is to ensure that the values of the society are reflected in the laws and regulations, and that all have the possibility of a decent living. This is the purpose of managing a society.