And now the past is referred to as weeks and months. These, in turn, have become nostalgic years that without giving us much thought, became a century and millennium. We feel as if we have not done enough. And so we write books about what we do, raise monuments, look in the mirror, and say yes, we have produced something of value. According to history, we are the only beings that permanently and desperately debate and struggle between the exploration of ideas and stability.
Governments also debate between curiosity and stability.
The ability to dream and imagine engenders intuition, and so does the ability to move between the two extremes. The trick is to know how and when to go one from to the other. The most important task for our governments is to reinterpret their respective countries with the audacity necessary to imagine a stability that also stimulates and astonishes. Modernization is not merely about an economic issue or a gesture, it's about perspective. Perhaps what we need for the new times is less to become carpetbaggers, and more to become humans with a balanced sense of curiosity, stability and fantasy.