Real change requires "that vision thing" that GHWB mentioned

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

You know, where you see the end of the road and you guide others to it? It is not the same to shout "I'll meet you there!" and disappear in the fog.

[dflprincess]

1. "Some men see things as they are and say Why?

I dream things that never were and say "make me"." (apologies to George Bernard Shaw who said it first and Robert Kennedy who often used the quote)

Doesn't have quite the same ring, does it?

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

2. People who quote Wellstone and FDR like you and me are pretty much

out in literally left field these days.

I understand "make me" as in - give me political cover, but I never really thought that "make me" would extend to the self evidently moral/right thing to do .

[RandomThoughts]

3. But vision is not enough.

It has to be shared with other, to see if they think the same future is better.

It has to be functionally accurate, where the different segments connect up to each other in a flow that works.

Example, Bush's vision of perfect world, may be his view of being in a class of better people and believing in dictatorship. Or his view that war leads to peace which is not a functional vision.


I think real vision is seen in the hopes and dreams of people of good will. Its shown over and over as what people want the world to be. And those dreams and stories are also the most popular ones.


(However there is one complicated flaw, most stories always have a bogeyman some bad guy to defeat, and people try to find that in other people that they try to make into an enemy to defeat. When usually that bad thing, that holds people back, is also the parts of themselves they can still improve. But that's in lots of stories also.)


And never forget, the emperor, before his destruction told Luke that he would be punished for his lack of vision. Because in the emperor's ways, his vision was only the power of the dark side, so he could not see Luke's vision, and assumed it did not exist. He never saw that Luke had a vision, saving his father, and his father saving him, and that was the vision that came true.