badawiI suppose when you have grand, long-term goals, you try to coach it in the most general terms possible to allow for a breadth of interpretation. The problem with repeating yourself again and again is, if what you say isn’t backed up with concrete proposals for action, everything remains up in the air and unresolved.

Which essentially means, no one knows what you’re talking about. It’s very much like envisioning More’s Utopia, or Plato’s Republic, except nothing specific is said about it. In the end, this “vision” appears to be nothing more than a Shangri-La shrouded in obscure declarations and descriptive statements about what “it will be like” rather than “how we’re going to get there”. [more..]