Second, the course also teaches how to judge these systems and to adapt them or conceive entirely different economic models. Finally, most ambitiously, I hope many of the how-to think about social vision lessons of the course apply to other domains, for example conceptualizing gender, political, or cultural aims for modern societies. It is like taking a trip, they might reason. We need vision to know where we are going. Vision tells us where we want to arrive and reveals how our present locale falls short of our desires.
Vision raises hope and desire.
It motivates and secures our efforts against temporary setbacks. These are reasonable reactions, yet others have serious doubts about pursuing vision. The future must come from everyone's involvement and for a few people to pose a vision crowds out that involvement. If you start thinking about vision, rather than collectively creating it, a few people will impose a future of their private design rather than hosts of people collectively creating the future. The points are well taken, yet this defender of pursuing vision is not convinced.