Government doesn’t move unless it’s pushed.
-- Yvon Chouinard
I've been contemplating the merits of this claim.
And, another thing; there is something a bit indescribable about all of us participating in one common choice on a day like today -- a mysterious kind of unity, in spite of all the divisiveness surrounding it.
I find myself wondering why we elevate this kind of choice, above others. It doesn't take much to posit some ideas. But, it strikes me that, though significant, it is our other choices, the ones we make day after day after day, that are more important. Could it be that our divisions would be less if we focused more on these much more regular choices, than the one we tend to imagine as critical today...like choosing the right candidate for President?
Our choices matter; if we believed that, then perhaps government would not need so much 'pushing'.
