Day 47: The Importance of Ideas


  1. Foundation: Ideas have Consequences
    1. A positive blueprint - an inspiration  - "I have an idea!"
    2. bad ideas are an obstacle
      e.g., communism / homosexual rights / ShariahLaw is "inevitable"-- "history is on our side"
      »» Extraordinary ideas have extraordinary consequences
Ideas Have Consequences, by Richard M Weaver

The Importance of Ideas

The human beings that settled the New World
were the same species of humans that remained in Europe.
But America became extraordinary,
while Europe stagnated under monarchy and socialism.
The difference was ideas.
Ideas have consequences.

These same ideas can have consequences in your life.

Samuel Adams Coaching is a distance-learning program that helps you learn these ideas and develop the skills to put them into effect and promote them in our society.
 

Ideas Have Consequences: First-Rate Title, Third-Rate Book

Keynes, the Great Depression, and the Coming Great Default

New ideas alone do not change the minds of most people. This includes intellectuals. There is usually a crisis that serves as a catalyst for changing the minds of millions of people.
It is the job of those intellectuals who favor a new outlook to work on the details of this outlook until such time as a revolutionary figure gains political support, and some new apologist for the revolutionary worldview comes to the forefront and begins to gain disciples. The power of ideas alone does not produce revolutions. There has to be a social setting to allow the catalyst of revolutionary ideas to produce a social and political transformation.