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The developed world has a vast, under-utilized asset that is not being leveraged to its best advantage: idealistic people who want to make the world a better place. For most of a century, idealistic people have been encouraged to use anger, protest, lobbying, and legal action in order to make the world a better place. While most certainly some of these behaviors and activities were necessary, we have reached the point at which the social benefit of such behaviors is decreasing. We have reached the point at which creation, rather than attack, ought to be the first obligation of reformers. The social entrepreneurship movement is the first tip of this iceberg. We want to create a world in which all idealists realize that the creation of new enterprises is the most powerful way to make positive change in the world. If all the energy that is currently invested in zero-sum political conflict was gradually transferred to the committed creation of sustainable enterprises, the cumulative impact on behalf of the good would be extraordinary.
This is so right one! Exactly what I have been feeling and believing and starting to live more and more everyday. SOunds like a book I need to get.
I am friends with an artist collective who spend a lot of time and effort in making posters that protest and bring awareness regarding much of the molestation of the earth, but they also protest things, and have an attitude of fight and defend.
I have not felt the need to step up and support them, but they are each becoming very dear friends…in fact, they look to me as someone who is living the life they beleive people should live, and also a sort of older sister loving kind of person who accepts each one of them within their own drama's that they share as a large group of people living in community. It has been fascinating to watch them and get to know them. But it has also convinced me more and more how it is much more valuable that each of us do what is said above. .. and so I continue in my own business of using clothing as recycleable and reusable materials.
Thank you for sharing this quote.
Namaste