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Thursday, September 11, 2003
Two Years Ago - A Goal for Our Time -- My piece from the time of the attacks includes a quotation from an earlier time of conflict and closes with...
A clearly stated and consistent vision and goal, such as this from [FDR] 60 years ago, is critical to the management, support, and success of any effort, whether in our personal lives, our companies, or this larger context. It may never be reached in absolute, but is worthy of focused striving. The terror that is the current constraint inhibiting this goal is a self-supporting symptom of the difficulty associated with attaining this goal in the complexities of a modern multi-cultural world. In dealing with the immediate symptom, we must do so keeping in mind the larger, long-term goal of universal freedom.
And as has been demonstrated in the two years since, this universal goal can best be achieved if we can learn to work together with others and avoid over-obsessing on our own short-term, local objectives of power and politics.
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