Saturday, January 29, 2011
umair haque
.......Real change doesn't begin with governments, presidents, or prime ministers. It begins with each of us. In the 20th century, never-ending mass-marketing, monopoly, and mega-politics came together to convince us, each and every one, that we're not really free: just free enough to choose between different flavors of the same old toxic junk. It was a trick, a ploy, a television hallucination. We're the freest people in history. It's time to use it like we meant it.
Every revolution begins from the bottom up. Fed up with the status quo? Tired of the 20th century? Then don't just talk about it. Reject it and refuse it. Build a better 21st century instead.
One of history's greatest builders once said: "be the change you want to see in the world". Let me update Gandhi's wisdom for the next decade. Want a revolution? Be the revolution you want to see in the world.
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