ThirstyFish

The Japanese have a proverb: "Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare". Sadly, most lack both "vision" and "action".

Most of the smartest people I know, the ones who understand what's going on in the world, keep it to themselves. They do not take a stance on anything worth taking a stance. They simply exist, that's it. They are defeated before they they take a stance, and hence, they don't. Why is that? It may have a lot to do with education. Or, our conscious/unconscious assumptions about the world. It seems, the more "technically educated" a person is, the less the chance he or she will take a stance. Is it because they have too much to lose?