A crash course in changing the world.
Interesting question..me in 2020? Well, because I'm probably not the typical Evoker.. I'll be 58 years old.. but, at that point, perhaps, I will hopefully be moving from my current vocation s a lawyer, to my second voation as a politician who will, hopefully, be working towards the demolition of ideology as an impediment to positive change, to the desctruction of arbitrary labels of "left" and "right", and to a government which responds to what citizens need, not what special interest groups…
ContinuePosted on March 10, 2010 at 5:04am — 1 Comment
Ok.
So, I had to pick a hero. Tough thing to do, really, of all the people in the world doing all sorts of things to make a difference, who do you pick, and why?
My choice is someone I've been newly introduced to through a chance purchase of a book at a University Book store on a recent holiday, Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists, by the author and philosopher, Susan Neiman.
I am somewhat involved politically in my Province,…
ContinuePosted on March 10, 2010 at 4:30am — 2 Comments
I hate to say it, but without reality born from some notion of market forces, large-scale change in my opinion is unlikely to take place. We can certainly motivate large groups for short-term emergencies (see Haiti), however, for lasting change, to ask a farmer, for example, to give away his produce without some form of compensation is not likely to occur.
That being said, we can be innovative in what we see as "value" being exchanged for products, and money is not necessarily…
ContinuePosted on March 9, 2010 at 2:22pm
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