Arizona’s insanity of creating a future based on speculative building is nearing an end. The days of growth economics are behind us. Will it leave a handful of new Arizona ghost towns in it’s wake or will there be a fundamental shift in the identity and culture of metro Phoenix?
The creatives are coming. That’s right, the innovators among us are seeking to rise out of the ashes of the foreclosed. A new wealth, one based on social and not monetary capital is gaining momentum. As it begins to take foothold it will soon begin to do more than challenge the status quo. Eventually it will overthrow it.
The crest of this great wave, with a swell of new capital headed toward the shore, is intent on destroying all the ancient structures in it’s path. The creative class is hungry for radical change. Forward movement requires new beliefs, new institutions and new ways of doing things. The creatives have grown up and are taking responsibility for their future.
Simply put, the world is changing. Are you willing to help shape it’s future? Radical change starts with YOU!
We must critique ideas, not people. We must be honest, not kind. We must be dream big and act realistically. The world doesn’t need another Mint.com, it needs another Google.
Stop the hiding. Get out in the open. Share thoughts and ideas. Stop worrying about control or credit. Wealth and success will come, but only to those that have earned it.
We must also stop thinking of hard work in terms SOLELY of hours worked, but rather of quality of work accomplished.
Make something useful.
So what is so new about what you’re talking about? I hear a lot of slogans and fluffy words, but how does anything you’re saying really put you in a different place than the status quo? If you think, as apparently Tyler Hurst does, that Google is the model for creativity, then God help you. Google’s just another part of the machine. You need to develop a capacity for fundamental critique of the powers that be, and the way that we all co-operate with them, give then energy and ultimately sustain them. You should know that nothing has fundamentally changed in the economic power structure of the USA through the foreclosure crisis. The machine will be back up and running in no time, unless we’re prepared to pay the price of saying “No” to it — and that price will not be small for any of us.