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Thinking today about the quote ‘the truth of the future will be told not with the pen, but the eraser’ — I guess it applies to credit leveraged personal and sovergn debt, but more in context of true ‘social’ initiatives.

A paraphrased story goes…

Some Harvard hot shot is sitting in a room for of military generals, talking about all these great things, social networking, crowdsourcing, functioning organzations — all of them nod in accordance, ‘good idea’ they say — The punchline from the Harvard bloke ‘What stands in the way is YOU, and this will all happen when you are gone, and not a minute sooner.’

This got me thinking about the simple principles offered by this guy that would save money and make the world a better place, but as always, we are our own worse enemy. 

This got me thinking of the company ‘The Eraser’, one in which meets with the head of the state and says things like you have 5 portals at this place, we’re shutting off 4 of them, the return on investment is ‘THIS’ for turning all the stuff off.  These sentiments are kyrptonite to the ears of some, so you wouldn’t engage in these point counterpoint arguements with the entrenched, hence you wait for the time when these ideas are ripe on the vine ready to be heard.  The time will come.

Bon Jovi played for the first time in Bucharest Romania, he said “thank you for the patience, we’ve waited 30 years to play here.”  While much of the world needs the pen, the developed world needs to learn how to use the eraser.

Bon Jovi - Bucharest Romania