Ideas on Saving the World
Empire Remixed http://empireremixed.com/2012/07/26/ideas-on-saving-the-world/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+empireremixed+%28Empire+Remixed%29 Posted: 26 Jul 2012 09:57 AM PDT During a recent episode of CBC’s Ideas, Political Theologian William T. Cavanaugh shared: The world has had enough of well-meaning American undergraduates going out and trying to change the world. Please don’t go out and try to change the world. Go back home to your little town in Minnesota and find your identity and your life in a place where you can be planted and take root. Smalltown Minnesota never felt so small. Maybe he’d been having a bad day. Maybe Cavanaugh had recently overdosed on Wendell Berry. It can happen to the best of us. But move back to my hometown? The University adventure was all about getting out and moving up. It was about expanding my mind and my experience. It was about making connections and becoming my own person. To go back now would...