Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them.
Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best
leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will
say 'We have done this ourselves".
This quote was mentioned to me by 
So, the absolute imperative is to create trust and ownership.
Trust and ownership.
What immediately came to my mind was;
Blockchain and crypto.
In so many ways, it is trust and ownership that have been missing in this world for far too long. As a result, even the very information we make our decisions on is questionable, but decisions we must make - what option is there? We have a world that makes a lot of promises, yet few are kept. And while there is plenty of entitlement, few take the responsibility of ownership.
It is even worse than that, the decisions we have made thus far lead us further away from being able to trust each other, as we have created ourselves as disposable products. Then we are incentivized to sell ourselves for hearts and stars, consuming to make ourselves feel relevant to people who do not know us nor care.
We live long, but live lonely.
I think that the conditions have degraded to the point that "ordinary" people are starting to open their eyes, starting to feel that there is not only something wrong, but that there is a reason for it, even though they do not have the full picture of what it is, let alone what the answer to it all will be.
While the blockchain industry is looking for solid usecase to gain traction and the crypto industry remains an oddity in the financial sector, the call for it is growing - even though those who cry out do not know to whom they cry. From inside these industries looking out, we can see how the technology and the ability to tokenize ownership of everything can return some balance to the distribution of value.
This is more than about money, it is about economy, the fundamental connection that unites us globally in every way that matters. Yes, love might be free, but it is economy that provides for it to grow and spread, to build a family. The development of skills to create goods and services to trade, require connection to trade itself - no man is an island, no person is self-made. It is all about network and without it, there is no humanity at all.
I don't put faith in having a technological solution to all of society's ills, but I also think that it can aid us in rediscovering what is important for us as a community, a community that has grown global, though few want to recognize it as such. We are interconnected in so many ways, but we are blind to all of the tethers, so we do not have visibility on what helps us, nor what stands in our way. We know that there must be a better way, yet we have not discovered it, as we follow the paths of others.
While small and fragmented, I think that slowly we are creeping forward, raising more questions to what currently is and sending out scouts to see if there is another way through. Change is hard, especially when the training to stay the same has been exacted with such strength and precision, sold with such sweetness that it seems that there is no other way but what we have been told.
As said, trust.
We put it in the wrong hands and with it, we place all of what we own in the same hands and hope that the promises made are fulfilled. Though, they never are. The better world promised is one that speaks loudly, while the hands extract all they can.
Change isn't easy, the mindset shift isn't either. But, at the scale needed, it doesn't come about until enough of us make the shift to take ownership - and perhaps the hardest part of it all is trusting that change is possible at all.
If we can prove it by changing ourselves, there is hope for us all.
Everything in this world of ours, the good and the bad.
We have done this ourselves.
Taraz
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