Posted by: Ryan Sanders on April 16, 2008 Hot Issues •
Today was no different than must days. I made time to read on the Internet news and blogs on things that interested me. One thing stood out. Like most days, a thinker challenges me. One such thinker that happens to blog. You may know him, his name is Seth Godin. Although I’ve never met him, I know that I like him. I like him because he challenges me to think. Not only does he challenge me to think, but he also challenges me to think bigger and differently than the status quo.
Today, he asked his readers an important question, a question that we all should ask ourselves. He wrote, “What happens when we organize?” While the spring season is upon us, he wasn’t necessarily speaking of the traditional time for cleaning as much as he was pointing toward the idea of organizing people around an idea.
As he pointed out, “Most power occurs because one side is better organized than the other”. Generally, as Godin clarifies, “Labor is usually less well organized than management, criminals are usually less well organized than the police and customers are always less well organized than producers.” He continues by making the claim that one person can make a complaint to a company and have nothing change. Add 10 people or 100 people, and suddenly, things begin to change. New rules begin to take shape.
The last sentence of his post reads, “The system doesn’t know what to do with a movement.” Dictionary.com defines the noun “movement” this way, “a change of position or location … a progressive development of ideas toward a particular conclusion … a principal division or section of a sonata, symphony, or the like … motion; rhythm; time; tempo.” It’s interesting to ponder movement with regard to music for a moment. Yet what if we organized our ideas politically? What would be our most important issues? If we could design a movement such that, 10 people or 100 people in a given community or state not only knew biblical values, but those same, informed people also voted their values?
Then, we’d change the system … for the better. Now, get let’s get out of the garage and start organizing!
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