In a challenging little book entitled “How to Re-Imagine the World: A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries”, Anthony Weston pleas for ideas.
What we desperately need —- first — are ideas: new big ideas, the next big things, ideas that reshape or even leapfrog the familiar battles themselves. It’s not a time for stock answers or old sectarian battle lines. Our most urgent need is to reawaken the radical imagination. . . . Radical imagination begins with a move beyond complaint and resistance, beyond reactive tinkering or hunkering down or cynical accommodation. The first big move is to an alternative picture of how things could be instead.