"If you think like a loser you certainly will be a loser. If you think positively about an outcome, it is no guarantee that good things will happen, but it is a crucial part of the enabling process."
Undoubtedly true, as far as personal motivation goes.
When we try to extend the idea to changing status quo in your company, your town, or your nation - it becomes a different problem.
Then you run into entrenched power, and the complacent interests of those who would rather live with the devil they know. These people have mortgages to pay and kids to feed. They keep their heads down and do what they're told or they'll be gone: in a factory, Wal Mart or Wall Street.
Disaster was averted. People were bought off with their own money, for which they and their children will be indebted for years. For true reform, widespread discontent and anger is needed, just as in the 30's.
That was understood, and narrowly avoided.
No amount of positive thinking will answer the deficiencies in the Warren Report, but the inferences are obvious. Now people watch, helpless, as the same process disguises a monstrous wrong and two stupendous thefts: one for them, and one for their children.
"When you got nothin'
You got nothin' to lose"
Jim |
