Help resolve the financial crisis by initiating a larger change Think about creating a snowball... And letting it roll down the hill... REFLECTION: Think about occupying Wall Street: As much as this sort of action can be vastly important as a way to draw public attention to a core issue, it is far from obvius in what way it may bring a real change. Indeed, those Wall Street guys have been trained at some of the best universities to do with great efficiency exactly what they're doing; they probably wouldn't know how to change the rules of their game even if they wanted to. Furthermore, finance is only an example, albeit rather extreme, of a general trend—a way in which pretty much all our professions have been evolving. So what can you do? Single-handedly, to change some of the mightiest power structures in the world? Think about creating a snowball. And letting it roll down the hill. We mean—be part of a new beginning, of another way of evolving professions—ultimately all professions; of the re-evolution, as we are calling this new way of evolving. Once that natural way of evolving has become normal, once the snowball has grown large and naturally absorbed the finance, people will be looking back at our time, as they so many times did in the past, and wonder—how could it have ever been otherwise? |