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What happened to changing the world?

Started by Alex Kaminski · 1 year ago

Maybe this is some delusion I have, but I've always believed that there are people out there who want to <span style="font-weight:bold;">change the world</span>. These are the revolutionaries, the visionaries, the ones who look at the world and see something different.

These "revolutionaries" come in differnt flavors. Some have such an idealistic ... Continue reading »

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  • lizunlong

    1 year ago

    via internet, Like-minded persons and you will find each other sooner or later.
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  • Alex Kaminski

    1 year ago

    True, but I'm surprised I haven't met any at my university, and I go to a pretty good school.
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  • Sam

    1 year ago

    You are clearly looking in the wrong place, for revolutionaries are not born in pretty good schools or towns or wherever. Great revolutionaries are born when they inquire within and find out for themselves who they are. Everything else will fall in place.
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  • Alex Kaminski

    1 year ago

    Yes, I agree they're "not born in pretty good schools or towns or wherever". My point was that I would have assumed that these revolutionaries would naturally pop up at "good" universities such as Stanford/MIT, etc... From the past that's where these revolutionaries seem to have congregated...
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  • Sam

    1 year ago

    well, a fair assumption, but let's dig a little deeper. Is it that revolutionaries are born or just a statistical anomaly that seems to pop out - i.e. wouldn't a pc revolution have happened anyways? Wouldn't there be some google anyways? I suppose the environment brings out the revolutionaries, not necessarily the other way around (though that is a possibility indeed)!
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