"Change the World"

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How do you change the world? That’s an easy one: from the top down.

You do so by increasing the level of accountability and demanding social responsibility on the most influential levels of our society.

From the parents to the children, to the teachers, to the type of media we consume as a nation on a daily basis, and even all the way up to the top, government jobs and the men (or women) we decide to put our white house.

You have to fundamentally change the way people think. You have to intrinsically change the messages on the banners and flags we display as a nation so that they read like John Lennon lyrics next to tyrannical religiosity and hateful, brutish banter we now hear from those of considerable influence on both sides of the political spectrum.

Now you may have heard the word “change” being thrown around a lot three years ago by a campaign that had us all swept up in the current of history.

And though our presidential incumbent has done much to aide our crestfallen nation, such as staving off the collapse of the American auto industry and putting forth a seemingly honest effort to reform healthcare in this country, I would go so far as to postulate that he did not go far enough.

In all honesty folks, I’m a huge Barrack Obama fan, but you cannot have real change by continually operating within the parameters of flawed system that does not have a real desire to reform itself.

The truth of the matter, and the point that I’m getting at is that as long as the decision makers in this country continue to hold as paradigm for success a set of standards that may hold true as traditionally popular, but continues to set forth ideas and sensibilities that can generally be viewed as ethically irresponsible, things will never change.

This being the case, it is up to those of us in society, with the necessary moral safeguards, to act in the best interest of our general collective, even if our leaders chose not to.

We must begin to propagate a standard of living that seeks to bear accountability for its own and strives to promote real change; not just as a slogan for it’s campaign, but as it's very reason for being.