{"id":212,"date":"2010-09-30T23:15:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T22:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lornemitchell.com\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2010-10-12T22:11:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T21:11:52","slug":"the-only-thing-that-can-change-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"The Only Thing That Can Change the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to be very inspired by the RSA&#8217;s Animate series &#8211; with fantastic cartoons illustrating really complex ideas.<\/p>\n<p>The clip below has been recently released, with Matthew Taylor&#8217;s ideas on 21st Century Enlightenment.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"580\" height=\"360\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AC7ANGMy0yo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It ends with a great quote Margaret Mead (American cultural anthropologist, 1901-1978):<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>&#8220;Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.\u00a0 Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>So now you know the only thing that can change the world!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to be very inspired by the RSA&#8217;s Animate series &#8211; with fantastic cartoons illustrating really complex ideas. The clip below has been recently released, with Matthew Taylor&#8217;s ideas on 21st Century Enlightenment. It ends with a great quote Margaret Mead (American cultural anthropologist, 1901-1978): &#8220;Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=212\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Only Thing That Can Change the World&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[41,40,32],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DQGK-3q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1972,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=1972","url_meta":{"origin":212,"position":0},"title":"TT1949 &#8211; A Call for Change","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"04\/12\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"A Call for Agent Provocateurs, Revolutionaries & Change Agents I'm often out-spoken. 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