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by phill
Had a conversation with Kane today on teh way back from uni. He said a very quotable line (from his own head), but I can’t for the life of me remember it. Going to have to ask him tomorrow.
Anyway, what the conversation was mainly about was the observation that when a person finally gets the ability (money, power, know-how) to do the things they wanted to do when they were young and had passion, that passion has all but vacated them and they live only for the goal that they originaly had, i.e. to accumulate those things that may enable them to fulfill their dreams. But the dream has died and the acqusition of more material wealth, for example, leads them nowhere.
A similar case may be made for the lending of the reins of power to a younger protege. Youth these days has a drive to make changes, but the power to make those changes rests in odler, more conservative hands. Obviously this is a great stabiliser against any major change, but we have to question whether it isn’t major change that any one country – or the entire world – needs. Essentially the human race’s terms of rulership hasn’t changed all that much for a very long time. A ruling body seeks to acuire more land, more favourable economic conditions and a better standard of living for its citizens (most of the time). But this is a futile effort if the resources it seeks to gain are non-infinite. A majority of resources may be gained for a short period of time but in the end, those resources will come to an end. There is no point in squabbling over who has the bigger di…economy. I don’t pretend to know all the answers but let’s throw a few around shall we. How about more injection into the funds of those seeking renewable energy? Mining of asteroids? A greater quality of farming, instead of taking the easy quantitive way out? I don’t know.
so as I was saying, passion may not be the most 100% reproduceable model for change in the human race’s history, but it has worked before and some of the most astounding ideas have come from passion of one sort or another.
I’m done now.
*step down from soapbox*
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