Yesterday on National Public Radio they were talking about "earth-shaking changes on a national scale." (You know NPR, it's the station that all the truly smart, educated people pretend to enjoy; sort of like wheat grass for the brain.) The enthused reporter used this phrase in referring to some historic event or another.
And I thought, maybe, the world would be a better place if we all strove for earth-shaking changes on a national scale. I'm not exactly sure what that would mean. But it sounds nice. The advantage is that you're starting small. You don't have to do as much.
In fact, why not take this further by reducing the scale of your earth-shaking changes to the local, or even the personal level? That's probably more realistic. And besides, if you mess up it will go easier on the clean-up crew.
Seriously, many philosophers seem to feel that the only earth-shaking changes are those which occur at the personal level. And maybe, in reality, those are the toughest changes of all? Yeah, forget I said anything. I'm going fishing.
