How do you change the world?

[Trevor Watkins]

My recent article on Daily Friend.
https://dailyfriend.co.za/2024/09/22/how-do-you-change-the-world/

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[Gabri Rigotti]

Great ... 😊👍👌

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" It is not the water in the fields that brings true development, rather, it is water in the eyes, or compassion for fellow beings, that brings about real development. "

—Anna Hazare

[Stephen van Jaarsveldt]

Ok... but not all of us are Steve Jobs... and that's a good thing. Someone has to plant, reap and process the mielies. Someone has to shear the sheep and milk the cows and solder the iPhone innards and dig up the tungsten. PJ O'Rourke said that everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to help mom with the dishes. In my opinion the people who produce and who keep repeating the same very important tasks, day after day, are the real heros. It takes enormous effort to keep the world turning and much of it is simple repetition. It's not exciting, it's not glorious and it is not fulfilling... but it is the only absolute necessity. It is what prevents us from going backwards. Just because there were loaves of bread on the store shelves today does not mean they will also be there tomorrow. Changing the world is wholly optional and does not have a particularly good track record. Mao and Stalin certainly changed the world. Had they but been peasants plowing fields for a living, we may all be better off.

S.

[Stephen van Jaarsveldt]

Oops. I guess I just showed some Conservatism under all my thick layers of Anarchist. ;-)

S.

[Sid Nothard]

Scotty Moore and Elvis Presley changed the world with a new sound

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[Stephen vJ]

I'm sure the sounds already existed. They just rearranged them a bit.

Stephen.

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[Sid Nothard]

Yes, they blended blues with rhythm to make a new sound

But is was that guitar that took things to a new level

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[Trevor Watkins]

Most new things are made from stuff that already existed. The kill is in finding the new arrangement. 

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[Jim Powell]

Sanitation improved the world far more than vaccines. Democracy improved the world, and later Direct Democracy for some countries. These are collective improvements, not individual

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[Trevor Watkins]

Dr Semmelweiss's recommendation that surgeons wash their hands before child delivery and after autopsies was world changing, and ignored. Thousands of women might have been saved. It was a new but unpopular idea.

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