Two Questions We Need To Answer If We Are Serious About Changing the World
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
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These are the questions that circle round my brain all day, every day. These are the questions we have to tackle if we want things to change.
1) Why are so many brilliant, wealthy, educated people—the luckiest, most powerful people ever to be born on the planet—stuck in apathy, despair, and anger about the future?
2) How do we get them unstuck so they can unleash their power and use their privilege to bring about transformation like nothing we’ve ever seen?
Why are these questions important? Because we (lucky, rich, educated people) have the responsibility to push things forward, and we’re not doing it, for a variety of reasons. How can we get beyond this? How can we make the transition from angry adolescent to mature and motivated adult?
I have lots of thoughts on these, but today I would like to hear yours.
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Thanks for posting these, Brandon. Krishnamurti’s words themselves pull me back into the unmanifest realm. And the more we can have one foot in the true timeless nature of being, the more powerfully we can act in the material realm. Lovely.
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