Comments on: the thing is…

By: jenn

jenn — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:21:24 +0000

Makes me think of the opening line of The Departed, “I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a produce of me.”

By: Mayson Lancaster

Mayson Lancaster — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:09:06 +0000

James Fallowes had some good thoughts about this local/global world changing tradeoff recently, when his father died. See http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/tiger_jim/ for those thoughts and more.

By: RKR

RKR — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:37:52 +0000

I get the image of meteors (ideas) hitting the earth. Some burn up in the atmosphere, some make it to earth—and then a big one!
I am sure I have not changed the world, but I have changed a few minds, and pissed a few people off.
…Probably no Nobel Prize in that.

By: Pilotlight

Pilotlight — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:35:49 +0000

What does “Changing The World” actually mean? — Interesting philosophical question and one which the Greeks, Chinese and other great thinkers have been searching for an answer to for a very long time. Guess it opens up many ideas on whose world you are looking to change – your own or someone else’s? And which of the two is more powerful?

By: kristo

kristo — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:34:19 +0000

nice, Hugh…
as always…
if we can just truly find ourselves…
that changes everything…

By: Daniel Edlen

Daniel Edlen — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:15:54 +0000

Can they be one and the same?
Peace.

By: Farhad

Farhad — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:46:15 +0000

When they are young they say “I want to change the world”. When they get old, they wish they had changed themselves
I like your posts very much, especially “Ignore Everybody”. Good job.

By: CommunityActionHeroDavid Yorka

CommunityActionHeroDavid Yorka — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:42:29 +0000

Hugh,
Thanks for sharing the Twitter comment, your post and reminding me that my mundane is what it is — personal, ongoing and satisfying