Last year I started to read a book, believing it could be a blueprint for a Modern Golden Age. The author promised a way to navigate the complex world we live in, with strategic thinking and a hopeful attitude.
So, I read.
And even though there are some great ideas, the amount of incongruence became impossible to ignore.
After spending paragraph after paragraph, criticizing the current elites in government and power positions, claiming that more power should be given to the people, he then adds:
Most people want to be lead instead of leading, so we need a small group of people to be in power positions and show them the way.
Not only that, but after spending so much time criticizing corruption and lobbying as tools to empower a certain ideology, he then criticizes one of the biggest companies in the world for not implementing a suggestion on their product that promoted his own ideology.
Once again, there are good ideas in the book, but taking it as a blueprint is impossible.
And maybe that’s ok.
In the end, what I truly enjoyed about this book was the reminder to grow at my own pace, without compromising my own values and ideals to present a “finished product”, that, at the end of the day, is flawed at its core.