but it’s actually much worse than that, because now the Great Satan is not copyright or whatever, it’s ‘corruption’. so, he’ll spend the next ten years battling and trying to catch up with ‘corruption’, and maybe he’ll be able to make some progress. And then?

And then he’ll find something just a bit more worthwhile, a bit more relevant, a bit more meaningful. It’ll be another baby step – some incremental bourgeoisie ‘safe’ step that people will consider ‘respectable’.

And then ten years later still he’ll start to realize, like all other would-be do-gooders before him, that ‘the system is broken’.

How about being different?

How about read some books that you’re not supposed to read? Leave the comfy confines of Stanford for 3 seconds so he can get a taste of what ‘democracy’ actually looks like. Look at independent analyses of U.S. domestic and foreign policy from home and abroad so he can reprogram his brain such that he can start thinking independently again. Put down ‘The World is Flat’ and pick up Stiglitz. Shoot – pick up anything but what he’s apparently been confined to reading for the past fifty years.

Those ’3 steps’ are so ambiguous, so water-down, so tame and uninteresting that they are almost completely worthless.

It’s a shame. The dude’s got too many yes men surrounding him. He could do so much more. He could be so much more.